Job Description

We’re looking for a Software Architect 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 Software Architect of our Platform Services division, you will lead the technical direction and execution against our mission to deliver a reliable, hardened, cost-effective, compliant cloud platform through a declarative, extensible set of provider-agnostic APIs. Leveraging your extensive experience, you will craft an aggressive multi-quarter architectural roadmap for the foundation of our runtime platform and work deep in the trenches with our engineers to iteratively deliver against this roadmap. You will work closely with our Product team and your peers to drive strategic alignment while ensuring we’re meeting the future needs of the business. This role is crucial to Procore's multi-year strategy - empowering our engineering teams to quickly deliver systems at scale both globally and across regulatory environments. If you have a passion for improving the lives of software engineers by building amazing systems at the intersection of software and infrastructure, we’d love to speak with you!

This position reports into the Director of Engineering, Platform Services 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:

• Design and Implement Cloud-Agnostic Vision for Platform Services: Lead the design and implementation of a wide variety of systems, including but not limited to, observability, ingress traffic management, and secrets, to ensure the seamless delivery of these capabilities across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.). This includes selecting appropriate solutions based on compute, data, compliance, and security requirements.
• Foster a Culture of Engineering: Partner with Engineering Leadership to apply concepts such as Domain-Driven & Test-Driven Development to the Platform Services space to deliver extensible APIs with high quality and velocity.
• Deploy Patterns of Event-Driven Architectures: Facilitate the development of our Platform Services into a set of robust, decoupled event-driven systems that reduce coordination cost between teams while enabling self-service delivery of our services to internal customers inside of Runtime Platform as well as the broader engineering community.
• Vendor Agnostic Cost Management: Empower developers to self-manage and forecast the costs of their applications across our wide range of vendors and solutions.
• Build Scalable and Resilient Systems: Design systems that are highly scalable and resilient to failures, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery capabilities across cloud providers. This includes implementing auto-scaling, failover strategies, and redundancy plans.
• Compliance and Secure by Design: Collaborate with security teams to embed security controls and compliance checks into Platform Services, ensuring all cloud deployments adhere to industry and regulatory standards.
• Drive Innovation and Research: Stay abreast of the latest cloud technologies and trends. Lead the exploration and adoption of cutting-edge tools and practices to enhance the agility and efficiency of the Platform Services.
• Collaborate with Development Teams: Serve as an evangelist for our Platform Services, working with feature teams to understand application requirements, drive adoption, and ensure the Platform Services support their needs.
• Educate and Mentor Team Members: Work closely with the Platform Services teams, educating and mentoring team members on cloud-agnostic practices, event-driven architecture, and best practices in cloud security and compliance. Drive adoption of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, facilitating a DevOps culture for cloud infrastructure systems.

What we're looking for:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related discipline; or comparable work experience. Technical Certifications are a plus.
• 15+ years of combined experience in Infrastructure / Platform Engineering.
• Customer-facing architecture, engineering, and operations experience at enterprise-grade SaaS companies serving millions of users per day.
• Experience architecting and designing a multi-cloud platform-as-a-service for internal product and development teams.
• A strong bias towards developer empathy and streamlining developer experiences at organizational scale to reduce developer toil.
• Proven track record of thought leadership & collaboration across multiple teams in a large organization to deliver results.
• Experience driving security, compliance, and disaster recovery in all aspects of enterprise-grade runtime platforms.
• Deep Experience with the following:
  • Multiple Public cloud native offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Edge Network and Compute Infrastructure (Cloudflare, Kong)
  • Secrets & Configuration Management Tooling (Vault, Parameter Store)
  • Data engineering, near real-time streaming, and workflow management
  • Observability vendors including the OpenTelemetry project (Datadog, Newrelic, Honeycomb)

Additional Information

Base Pay Range $214,960 - $295,570. 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 employees on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, 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.