Staff AI Platform Engineer

Flight Schedule Pro powers the worlds flight training ecosystem supporting over 1400 flight schools and tens of thousands of pilots each year.

We are now building Pilotbase a connected system that brings together flight schools pilots and industry partners into a single data-driven network. This next phase of growth is focused on expanding within our existing customer base reaching pilots directly and creating new revenue streams across the ecosystem.

As our Staff Software Engineer for Developer Platform you are a highly-productive AI-first engineer who owns the platform and tooling that lets every engineer PM and designer at Pilotbase ship faster. This is a force-multiplier role: rather than adding linear capacity to one product team you raise the ceiling for everyone. You will build and operate the paved road of curated self-service tools spanning local development CI/CD shared libraries cloud infrastructure and the autonomous AI agents we are embedding into our software development lifecycle. You bring an AI-native methodology to everything you touch: automating away friction safely introducing agents into the SDLC with the right guardrails and treating developer productivity as a measurable product with our engineers as your customers. This is a deeply hands-on individual contributor role with organization-wide impact responsible for setting the technical direction for how Pilotbase builds software.

• Evolve AI use throughout the SDLC develop evaluate and operate autonomous agents and AI tooling that augment how we plan code review and ship with the governance (access guardrails cost and quality controls) to run them safely at scale
• Maintain the Pilotbase monorepos workspace dependency graphs code sharing and library publishing across 20 shared libraries (types validation schemas utilities API clients)
• Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines GitHub Actions build performance container builds and deployments as well as establish quality gates such as testing and PR checks
• Co-manage cloud infrastructure AWS ECS/Fargate ALB ECR CloudFront and Terraform IaC
• Strengthen authentication and authorization enterprise SSO OAuth integrations and shared auth providers across web and mobile apps
• Build and operate the feature flag services to enable safe deployment of new capabilities
• Drive design system adoption
• Own database tooling and migrations across a mix of technologies
• Reduce developer-experience friction including local dev setup environment configuration and AI tooling

REQUIRED:

• An AI-first engineer who reaches for agents and AI tooling by default with a clear point of view on how they change the way teams build software
• Experience implementing agentic AI frameworks for software development beyond personal coding assistants.
• Hands-on experience with monorepo tooling (Nx Turborepo or npm/pnpm/yarn workspaces)
• Hands-on with AWS (ECS/Fargate ALB ECR IAM) and Terraform
• Comfortable with CI/CD systems and containerized deployments
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Strong well-formed opinions on code quality testing and developer productivity

PREFERRED:

• Experience building or operating ML/LLM/AI infrastructure or agentic systems
• Exposure to and/or React Native / Expo
• Experience building a design system or a feature flag platform
• Experience treating an internal platform as a product

$170000$210000 base salary depending on experience and location.

• Full benefits package (Medical Dental Vision Short-Term Disability Life Insurance 401(k) plan)
• Equity Appreciation Plan
• Flexible Time Off policy
• Seven (7) company-wide paid holidays two (2) floating holidays
• Two (2) wellness days
• Employee Assistance Program
• Professional Development Stipend
• Home Office Stipend

• Occasional business travel may be required up to 10%.

• The company will accept ongoing applications until the role is filled. There is no deadline to apply for this position.

Pilotbase is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all qualified individuals to apply. If youre excited about this role wed love a chance to review your resume. We value a diverse and inclusive work environment and look for passionate people who are ready to do great things. If there is a required or preferred location for an open role it will be listed in the job description. All applicants for employment must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Pilotbase does not provide work visa sponsorship at this time.

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