Senior Manager of Software Engineering

Procore Technologies; Texas; On-site; USD 198,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Bonus incentive

Job summary

Procore Technologies is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide the Aerial team—the processing pipeline that turns thousands of drone images into georeferenced maps and scalable imagery services. You’ll partner with Product to shape the roadmap, own the customer outcome end to end, and drive large, multi-quarter initiatives across web, backend, and cloud systems.

This role demands hands-on leadership, strong AI fluency, and a track record of growing engineers into technical leaders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience and 5+ years leading engineers
• Track record delivering multi-quarter technical programs with clear success metrics
• Proven ability to grow engineers into leaders and expand output
• Hands-on depth across web, backend, and cloud systems; able to read code and assess math/data
• Experience using AI as a primary working partner across coding, prototyping, and analysis
• Ability to ramp quickly into complex, unfamiliar technical domains
• Customer-focused decisions shaping product and UX

Responsibilities

• Lead the team to deliver large, business-critical technical initiatives through to completion; define success by data
• Strengthen the team by focusing on high-impact problems and growing engineers into leaders
• Advance how the team uses AI; organize planning, prototyping, debugging, and shipping in AI-heavy pods
• Own the Aerial customer outcome end to end by partnering with Product on the roadmap
• Stay hands-on with PRs and prototypes; set architectural direction with the principal engineer
• Ensure quality and reliability through metrics and observability so issues surface before customers see them
• Represent Aerial to leadership and customers, including site visits

Skills

Leadership

AI-driven development

Systems design

Hands-on coding

Cross-functional collaboration

Customer focus

Geospatial awareness

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.