PermitFlow
Principal Software Engineer, Platform
$250K–$300K
New York City, NY +1 · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- New York City, NY
Remote - Experience
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including time setting technical direction across multiple teams.
About the job
Own PermitFlow’s platform and codebase architecture, building infrastructure and agent-first engineering workflows that help teams and AI agents develop and verify software at scale.
What you'll do
- Set codebase architecture, monorepo patterns, module boundaries, and lead organization-wide refactors and migrations.
- Build shared platform services and infrastructure, including data access, background jobs, environments, and observability.
- Establish agentic software development and verification workflows, including AI-assisted reviews, tests, CI gates, and background agents.
What they ask for
- Experience owning architecture of a large, multi-team codebase, including monorepo tooling and organization-wide migrations.
- Strong platform and infrastructure experience, including cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and production services.
- Ability to work across the stack, from data model to UI.
- Current agent-first software engineering experience and knowledge of context engineering, agent instructions and skills, MCP, sandboxed execution, and agent evaluation.
Pay
$250K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
Nx, Turborepo, Bazel, MCP
AI focus
Build an agent-first platform and agentic software development lifecycle; use AI agents for coding, code review, test generation, ticket work, flaky-test triage, dependency upgrades, migrations, and incident fixes.
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