Senior Principal Software Engineer

procore; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Procore is seeking a Sr Principal Software Engineer to join our Owners team in Bengaluru. You will drive multi-year technical vision across web, backend, UI/UX, and AI-enabled platforms, partnering with product, UX and architects to scale our construction SaaS platform.

You will mentor senior engineers, set architectural standards, and deliver high-impact, scalable systems while remaining hands-on on critical initiatives and code where it matters most.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience across large-scale, distributed systems.
• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years at Principal level or above with organization-wide technical scope.

Responsibilities

• Own multi-year technical vision and architecture for foundational platform services.
• Set architectural direction and patterns across engineering teams.
• Act as the final technical authority on key design decisions and drive alignment.
• Mentor senior engineers and lead architecture reviews and strategy forums.
• Define Procore's approach to AI-native engineering and evangelize adoption across teams.
• Remain hands-on on high-risk initiatives and contribute code and design exemplars.
• Collaborate with VPs, product, UX, and executives to shape technology strategy.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

AI‑native engineering

Leadership

Mentoring

Ruby on Rails

Go

Java

Node.js

Python

React

TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's / Master's in Computer Science

Job description

We're looking for a Sr Principal Software Engineer to join Procore's Owners team . In this role, you'll have the unique opportunity to drive the next generation of construction platform initiatives in a global SaaS infrastructure. You'll work with our dedicated and talented team spanning Engineering, Product Management, UX and Architects to create and scale the next generation Procore experience on our web platform. You'll bring your deep experience in Web, Backend, UI/UX, Micro Front-end and MicroServices to evolve our platform.

As a Sr Principal Software Engineer, you will be primarily responsible for establishing the strategic technical direction, creating reference patterns, and will be additionally responsible for actively hands‑on execution of that strategy for one of Procore's core product areas. This is a great opportunity to use your leadership, interpersonal, and organizational skills to build highly effective systems and practices, foster collaborative relationships, and measure value delivered to our customers.

This position reports to the Sr Engineering Director with the opportunity to be located in the Bengaluru office . We're looking for someone to join our team immediately.

What you'll do:

• Own the multi‑year technical vision and architecture for foundational platform services that power the industry's most complex construction workflows - spanning products, organizations, and modalities (web, mobile, API, and agentic surfaces)
• Set company‑wide architectural direction, standards, and patterns; identify and resolve the highest‑leverage, highest‑ambiguity technical problems across the engineering organization before they become blockers
• Act as the final technical authority on the most consequential design decisions, driving alignment across multiple engineering divisions on distributed systems, platform, data, and AI/agentic architecture
• Serve as a force multiplier: mentor and grow Principal and Staff engineers, cultivate the next generation of senior technical leaders, and raise the engineering bar through architecture reviews, design councils, and technical strategy forums
• Define Procore's approach to AI‑native engineering - from agentic development workflows in the SDLC to production agentic systems in the product - and evangelize adoption across P&T
• Remain hands‑on where it matters most: prototyping high‑risk/high‑reward bets, unblocking critical initiatives, and writing code and design documents that serve as exemplars for the organization
• Partner directly with the VPs, and product/UX/business executives to shape corporate and product strategy; translate strategic objectives into a coherent, durable technology strategy and hold the organization accountable to it

What we're looking for:

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or comparable work experience
• 15+ years of software engineering experience building and operating large‑scale, distributed, full‑stack systems, including 5+ years operating at Principal level or above with organization‑wide or company‑wide technical scope
• A track record of defining and delivering multi‑year technical strategies that materially changed the trajectory of a business - including platform consolidations, re‑architectures, or new‑category product platforms at scale
• Deep, current expertise across the modern stack (e.g., Ruby on Rails, Go, Java, Node.js, Python; React, TypeScript) with mastery of distributed systems design, resilience, scalability, and operational excellence
• Demonstrated leadership in AI‑native engineering: hands‑on experience architecting agentic AI systems, integrating LLMs into products, and transforming SDLC practices with AI tooling - not just prototyping, but shipping and operating at scale
• Recognized technical authority beyond your immediate organization - evidenced by influence across divisions, industry presence, patents, publications, open‑source leadership, or comparable impact
• Exceptional judgment in navigating ambiguity: the ability to identify the problems that matter most, frame them for executives and engineers alike, and drive decisions that stick
• Executive‑level communication and influence: comfortable presenting technical strategy to the C‑suite and board‑level audiences, aligning stakeholders across the enterprise, and championing a culture of engineering excellence and well‑managed systems