# Principal Software Engineer, Platform at PermitFlow

- Company: PermitFlow
- What the company does: PermitFlow simplifies permit preparation, submission, and tracks nationwide. Our platform handles the paperwork across all municipalities. Backed by Accel, Kleiner Perkins and Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.permitflow.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York City, NY
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $250K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-04
- Apply by: 2026-12-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/permitflow/ff27be84-25db-4d65-a421-ff9b0cd339a4?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/permitflow-principal-software-engineer-platform-2/

## About the role

We’re hiring a Principal Engineer to own the evolution of our architecture and platform so it works for agents as well as people. Our goal is simple: double the output of our entire organization while raising the quality bar. The scope is the whole platform. You’ll work across infrastructure, shared services, and product code, and step in as a product engineer anywhere in the stack when that is the fastest way to move. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You've owned the architecture of a large, multi-team codebase. You've set the module boundaries and patterns others build within, run monorepo tooling (Nx, Turborepo, Bazel, or similar), and led migrations that changed how a whole org works
- Strong platform and infrastructure depth: cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and services you've run in production through real incidents
- You can work across the stack as a product engineer, from data model to UI, and you're happy to do it
- You work agent-first today. A large share of the code you ship comes from AI coding agents, and you have specific, earned opinions on where they break and how codebase structure fixes that
- Current knowledge of the agentic stack as it applies to software engineering: context engineering, agent instructions and skills, MCP, sandboxed execution, and how to evaluate a coding agent's output
- You operate with earned authority. You influence through demonstrated judgment, working code, and clear writing rather than title or mandate

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/permitflow-principal-software-engineer-platform-2/