Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join Procore’s Product & Technology Team. Procore software solutions aim to improve the lives of everyone in construction and the people within Product & Technology are the driving force behind our innovative, top-rated global platform. We’re a customer-centric group that encompasses engineering, product, product design and data, security and business systems. 

As a Principal Software Engineer at Procore, you’re given the unique opportunity to partner intimately with our customer base, translating their fundamental needs into technological SaaS solutions. Backed by the might of our teams, we’ll provide you with the tools and resources needed to achieve extraordinary results that render a significant impact extending beyond the boundaries of traditional engineering roles. 

This position reports into the Senior Manager, Software Engineering and is located in our Austin, TX office. We’re looking for someone to join our team immediately. Apply today to join our team of Groundbreakers!

What you’ll do:

• Help establish standards for development teams and collaborate on initiatives with infrastructure, platform, and other software engineering teams

• Assist fellow teammates by conducting code reviews and pairing

• Leverage our tech stack: Primarily Java/React/Postgres hosted on AWS and increasingly using Kubernetes, CircleCI for Continuous Integration, and a combination of ArgoCD and an in-house tool for CD.

• Drive critical projects, including: 

  • Scalability: We’re scaling and need engineers who are ready to take on the challenge of working on live, core systems with millions of users

  • Complex schedule management systems: We’re building a world-class system for managing the schedule of complex construction projects . You’ll work through challenges like planning, tracking and ensuring a consistent understanding of the schedule by all the relevant stakeholders.

  • Evolve our existing codebase from a monolithic Rails application into a modular system with clear, well-enforced domain boundaries and a coherent public interface

  • Participate in designing and building a system that is aligned with Procore’s technical vision of a Service-Oriented Architecture

  • Build, maintain, and develop a wide series of microservices and are looking for engineers adept at discovering new opportunities and driving them to completion.

What we're looking for: 

• Professional experience with React, Angular with working knowledge of Java, Spring Boot and/or Ruby

• 12+ years experience in software engineering fundamentals, Test Driven Development and Design principles

• Experience with working on building and maintaining high scale enterprise applications

• Understanding the tradeoffs between short-term and long-term goals and balancing immediate needs with strategic initiatives

• Experience in working with software, platforms, and infrastructure at scale (we run thousands of hosts and have millions of users) 

• Experience in building modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery systems at scale

• Experience working with a team on large initiatives with the ability to course-correct as needed

• Experience working with modern web development, including testing, staging, deploying, and monitoring

Additional Information

Base Pay Range $185,800 - $255,475. Eligible for Bonus Incentive Compensation. Procore is committed to offering competitive, fair, and commensurate compensation, and has provided an estimated pay range for this role. Actual compensation will be based on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, education or training, and location.

Perks & Benefits

At Procore, we invest in our employees and provide a full range of benefits and perks to help you grow and thrive. From generous paid time off and healthcare coverage to career enrichment and development programs, learn more details about what we offer and how we empower you to be your best.

About Us

Procore Technologies is building the software that builds the world. We provide cloud-based construction management software that helps clients more efficiently build skyscrapers, hospitals, retail centers, airports, housing complexes, and more. At Procore, we have worked hard to create and maintain a culture where you can own your work and are encouraged and given resources to try new ideas. Check us out on Glassdoor to see what others are saying about working at Procore.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and welcome builders of all backgrounds. We thrive in a diverse, dynamic, and inclusive environment. We do not tolerate discrimination against candidates or employees on the basis of gender, sex, national origin, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race, traveler community, status as a protected veteran or any other classification protected by law.

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For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Procore will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

A criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: 1. appropriately managing, accessing, and handling confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information, as well as accessing Procore's information technology systems and platforms; 2. interacting with and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external customers, stakeholders, and/or colleagues; and 3. exercising sound judgment.