Senior Go Engineer - Scalable Rendering Microservice

Procore Technologies; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Procore Technologies in Austin, TX is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own a mission-critical document-rendering microservice built with Go and Postgres. You will break a Rails monolith into a modular, reliable system and establish patterns the team will follow.

You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, emphasize reliability and observability, and mentor peers while shaping deployment standards with CI/CD. This role is 2 days per week hybrid in Austin.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of professional experience in Object-Oriented Programming, with deep expertise in Go, Ruby on Rails and Postgres.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and best practices for building scalable web applications.
• Experience designing and operating systems on cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), with an emphasis on reliability and observability.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes as well as experience programming in Ruby on Rails is a strong plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to understand tradeoffs, balancing immediate needs with long-term strategic initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to document and bring team clarity to complex technical solutions.
• Curiosity, drive, and customer-focus—you love solving real problems with elegant solutions.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and build a scalable, high-performance microservice for document rendering using Golang and Postgres.
• Evolve our existing codebase from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application into a modular system with clear, well-enforced domain boundaries and a coherent public interface
• Define domain boundaries, architectural patterns, and standards that improve reliability, maintainability, and development velocity.
• Drive system-level improvements in performance, resilience, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Establish and uphold engineering best practices, including testing strategies (TDD), code reviews, instrumentation, and comprehensive documentation.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and lead root cause analysis for complex issues to implement effective, long-term solutions.
• Act as a technical collaborator and mentor, providing constructive feedback to peers to maintain code quality and enable the team to deliver autonomously.
• Partner with infrastructure, platform, and DevOps teams to define standards for deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, and reliability automation.

Skills

Go

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

Microservices

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

TDD

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Git

Rails

Job description

Procore Technologies in Austin, TX is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own a mission-critical document-rendering microservice built with Go and Postgres. You will break a Rails monolith into a modular, reliable system and establish patterns the team will follow.

You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, emphasize reliability and observability, and mentor peers while shaping deployment standards with CI/CD. This role is 2 days per week hybrid in Austin.