Senior Manager of Software Engineering

Procore Technologies; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 198,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Bonus incentive

Job summary

DroneDeploy is seeking a seasoned engineering leader to guide a large, distributed team building the world’s leading reality capture platform. You’ll define success metrics, ship strategic initiatives, and partner with product to shape the roadmap.

You will stay hands-on with the codebase, drive AI-enabled workflows, mentor engineers into senior roles, and obsess about quality and reliability while representing Aerial to executives and customers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience and 5+ years leading engineers, including senior and staff-level ICs.
• Track record of delivering complex multi-quarter programs with clear success metrics.
• Proven ability to strengthen teams and grow engineers into leaders.
• Hands-on technical depth across web, backend, and cloud systems; comfortable with code and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• 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 by focusing a senior, distributed team on high-impact problems and growing engineers into technical leaders.
• Evolve how the team works with AI; lead with AI in your own work and create AI-heavy pods for planning, prototyping, debugging, and shipping.
• Own the Aerial experience by partnering with Product to shape and sequence the roadmap and own the customer outcome end-to-end.
• Stay hands-on with PRs, prototypes, and debugging alongside the team; set technical direction from architecture to platform investment.
• Own quality and reliability through metrics and observability so issues surface before customers see them.
• Represent Aerial to leadership and customers, including site visits.

Skills

Engineering leadership

AI integration

Distributed teams

Backend systems

Web development

Cloud infrastructure

Data analysis

Geospatial domain knowledge

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.

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.