Platform Engineer

About Pulley

Pulley helps the country’s top architects, builders, and retailers speed up every project in their portfolio. With AI-powered permitting intelligence and expert guidance, we eliminate costly delays and bring predictability across the full lifecycle of commercial projects.

Today, permitting is the slowest, most uncertain part of building, spread across 19,000+ jurisdictions with different rules, timelines, and surprises. Pulley gives project teams the clarity and predictability they need to move from planning to opening without delays.

We support rollout programs for brands like J.Crew, Solidcore, and Hibbett Sports, as well as major data center buildouts, EV charging networks, and other commercial projects. Our platform dramatically reduces approval timelines, improves forecasting accuracy, and removes thousands of hours of manual work from design and construction teams.

Founded in 2021, Pulley combines deep permitting expertise with purpose-built AI from people who have created products used by millions. We’re backed by CRV, Susa Ventures, Fifth Wall, and leaders from Plaid, Segment, ServiceTitan, and Procore.

The Role

We're hiring a Platform Engineer to own the foundation our product is built on. Your job is to make our engineering team and product faster, safer, and more effective. As Pulley's dedicated Platform Engineer you will:

Own our CI/CD pipelines so engineers can ship safely and often

Manage and scale our Postgres databases: performance, migrations, backups, and reliability

Define and manage our infrastructure as code (Terraform) on Google Cloud

Treat developer experience like a product: find what's slowing engineers down and fix it

Move up the stack to build the abstractions, internal tools, and paved paths that let product engineers focus on the product

Use AI and automation to take routine maintenance off the team's plate, like dependency upgrades, alert triage, migrations, and cleanup

Build security into how we work: access, secrets, least privilege, and protecting customer data

Who You Are

You've worked on both sides. You've built product, and you've built the platform under it, so you know what product engineers actually need

You think of other engineers as your customers and care whether the thing you built made them more efficient

You have a security mindset

Your instinct is to automate, and AI is one of the first tools you reach for

You don't treat quality and velocity as a tradeoff. You look for the tools, abstractions, and processes that buy both

You default to ownership: when something is broken or missing, you fix it

Need to Have

4+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time owning infrastructure, CI/CD, or platform work

Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Database management experience. We use Postgres, but experience with any database is fine

Config as code experience with Terraform or similar

Experience with an IaaS provider. We use GCP, but AWS or Azure works too

Strong security fundamentals

Comfortable writing product-level code (we use TypeScript and React) and building abstractions other engineers rely on

Real experience building with AI coding agents as a daily practice

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and excited to work in person 4 days a week

Why This Role

High leverage: everything you build makes every engineer at Pulley faster

Shape the platform: help set how we build, ship, and secure our product as the team grows

Room to grow: scope expands as we launch new product lines