Senior Manager of Software Engineering

DroneDeploy, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 198,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Bonus incentive compensation

Job summary

DroneDeploy is the reality capture platform powering the world's largest projects. We’re seeking a leader to raise the bar, tackle ambitious technical work, and deliver customer value quickly.

You don’t need to be a geospatial expert—the team has that depth, you’ll be the leader who makes a great team even stronger. In this role you’ll lead a senior, distributed engineering group, drive AI-enabled product development, own the Aerial experience end to end, and stay hands-on with code,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience and 5+ years leading engineers.
• Complex, multi-quarter technical programs finished predictably, with clear success metrics.
• A record of making strong teams stronger; growth of engineers and output.
• Hands-on technical depth across web, backend, and cloud systems.
• AI as a primary working partner across coding, prototyping, and analysis.
• Ramping quickly into complex, unfamiliar technical domains.
• Customer focus evident in product and UX decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team to deliver large, business-critical, technical initiatives through to completion.
• Make a strong team stronger; focus a senior, distributed team on high-impact problems.
• Evolve how the team works with AI: planning, prototyping, debugging, and shipping.
• Own the Aerial experience by shaping roadmap with Product and customer outcomes.
• Stay hands-on with PRs, prototypes, and debugging; set technical direction.
• Own quality and reliability through metrics and observability.
• Represent Aerial to leadership and customers, including site visits.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Hands-on coding

AI collaboration

Roadmap ownership

Team mentoring

Distributed systems

Data-driven decisions

Tools

Geospatial data systems

Cloud infrastructure

Backend services

AI tooling

Job description

DroneDeploy is the reality capture platform for the world's largest projects. More than 40% of the ENR Top 400 construction contractors run on it, alongside energy, mining, and agriculture customers mapping some of the biggest sites on earth. The Aerial team sits at the core of the platform: the processing pipeline that turns thousands of raw drone images into a georeferenced map, the geospatial foundation that makes those maps survey-grade, and the systems that serve imagery, terrain, and measurements at scale. Almost every customer's work starts with something this team built.

The team behind it is senior and technically deep and the opportunity ahead is bigger than ever. We're looking for a leader who raises the bar: takes on the most ambitious technical work and proves its impact, gets new capabilities to customers quickly, and shapes how a modern engineering team builds with AI. You don't need to arrive as a geospatial expert, because the team has that depth. You need to be the leader who makes a great team even better.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the team to deliver large, business-critical, technical initiatives through to completion. Define what success looks like up front and show it in the numbers.
• Make a strong team stronger. Focus a senior, distributed team on the highest-impact problems, and grow engineers into technical leaders with broader scope.
• Evolve how the team works with AI. Lead from the front with AI in your own work, then make small, AI-heavy pods the way the team builds: planning, prototyping, debugging, and shipping.
• Own the Aerial experience. Partner with Product to shape and sequence the roadmap, and own the customer outcome end to end.
• Stay hands-on. PRs, prototypes, and debugging alongside the team. Set technical direction with the team's principal engineer, from architecture and boundaries to platform investment.
• Own quality and reliability through metrics and observability, so problems surface before customers find them.
• Represent Aerial to leadership and customers, including site visits.

What We're Looking For:

• 8+ years of engineering experience and 5+ years leading engineers, including senior and staff-level ICs
• Complex, multi-quarter technical programs finished predictably, with clear success metrics
• A record of making strong teams stronger. You can point to the engineers who grew and the output that followed
• Hands-on technical depth across web, backend, and cloud systems. You still read and write code, and you're comfortable enough with the underlying math and data to question the results
• AI as a primary working partner across coding, prototyping, and analysis, and evidence that you changed how a team works because of it
• A record of ramping quickly into complex, unfamiliar technical domains
• Customer focus that shows up in product and UX decisions

Nice to Have

• Experience with geospatial, mapping, 3D, imagery, or other data-intensive systems at scale
• Experience in survey, construction, energy, or other industries where being wrong has real consequences for the customer
• Drone/UAV experience or a Part 107 certificate

Additional Information

Base Pay Range:

198,240.00 - 272,580.00 USD Annual

This role may also be eligible for Equity Compensation and/or Bonus Incentive Compensation. Procore is committed to offering competitive, fair, and commensurate compensation. Actual compensation will be based on a candidate's job-related skills, experience, education or training, and location.

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.