Staff Security Engineer

Procore; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 168,560 - 231,770; Full time

Job summary

Procore is looking for a Staff Security Engineer to join the Security Engineering team in Austin, TX. This foundational role focuses on designing self-governing security systems. The engineer will collaborate with multiple departments to enhance security through advanced automation and robust frameworks.

Key responsibilities include developing autonomous systems to eliminate vulnerabilities, architecting secure deployment paths, and leading the shift to an agentic engineering model. Ideal candidates have significant experience in hands-on security and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on technical security experience.
• Deep experience with agent frameworks like LangGraph and AutoGPT.
• Knowledge of AI security risks and creating defensive structures.
• Experience in cloud-native architecture like AWS/K8s.

Responsibilities

• Define Agentic Identity & Governance.
• Lead strategy for self-healing systems.
• Architect secure agent deployment pathways.
• Design multi-agent orchestration layers.
• Create multi-year transition strategy to autonomous security.

Skills

Technical security expertise

Agent orchestration mastery

LLM security knowledge

Distributed systems understanding

IAM/IGA systems experience

Strategic influence

Agentic SDLC vision

Analytical rigor

Communication skills

Job description

We're looking for a Staff Security Engineer to join Procore's Security Engineering team as a foundational technical leader. In this role, you won't just be implementing security controls—you will be designing the next generation of autonomous defense. Your mission is to move Procore beyond static automation toward a self-governing, agentic security posture. You will design the high-level frameworks and orchestration layers that allow a fleet of security agents to protect our platform, data, and users with minimal human intervention.

As a Staff Engineer, you are a force multiplier. You will partner with Product & Technology, IT, Security Operations, and GRC to execute the long-term strategy for agentic security engineering. You will use your deep expertise in distributed systems and LLM orchestration to build robust, scalable agentic workflows that solve entire classes of security vulnerabilities permanently. This is a high-impact leadership opportunity to define the future of security engineering for a global SaaS leader—Apply today.

This position reports into the Senior Director, Security Engineering and will be based in our Austin, TX office.

What you'll do:

• Define Agentic Identity & Governance: Solve the complex challenge of Agent Identity-designing how autonomous agents authenticate (IAM/OIDC), manage secrets, and operate within least-privilege guardrails.


• Autonomous Vulnerability Eradication: Lead the strategy for self-healing systems, building agents that don't just find bugs, but autonomously architect, test, and deploy platform-wide refactors to eliminate vulnerability classes.


• Secure the AI Infrastructure: Architect the enterprise-wide paved path for secure agent deployment, including high-assurance sandboxing, real-time prompt-injection firewalls, and RAG data-leakage prevention.


• Design the Agentic Fabric: Design and implement the multi-agent orchestration layer (using LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or custom MAS frameworks) that coordinates autonomous security tasks across the enterprise.


• Drive the Agentic Roadmap: Design the multi-year technical strategy for shifting Procore from manual security engineering to a human-in-the-loop autonomous model.


• Lead Complex Evaluations: Spearhead the evaluation of emerging agentic security platforms and LLM-native security tools, moving them from proof-of-concept to production at scale.


• Advanced Threat Modeling: Build agents capable of performing dynamic, recursive threat modeling of microservices and complex cloud architectures.


• Strategic Mentorship: Scale agentic thinking across the entire Security and Engineering organization, setting the standard for how Procore builds and secures autonomous systems.

What we're looking for:

• Development: 6+ years of experience in hands-on technical security, with a proven track record of shipping complex, distributed software in Python or Go at a Staff level.


• Agentic Orchestration Mastery: Deep, production-level experience with agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGPT). You understand the architecture of stateful, multi-turn agentic loops and autonomous tool-calling.


• LLM Security Pioneer: Authoritative knowledge of AI security risks (OWASP LLM Top 10) and experience building defensive layers like Semantic Firewalls, LLM Guardrails, and EWS (Early Warning Systems) for agents.


• Distributed Systems Expertise: Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture (AWS/K8s) specifically as it relates to providing secure, scalable execution environments for autonomous processes.


• Agentic Identity & Access: Proven experience building or extending IAM/IGA systems to handle non-human, autonomous entities (service mesh, workload identity, agent-specific tokens).


• Strategic Influence: The ability to influence engineering leadership and drive the cultural shift from \"scanning for bugs\" to \"building autonomous fixers\".


• Agentic SDLC Vision: Experience embedding AI agents into the CI/CD pipeline to automate complex reasoning tasks, moving beyond simple static/dynamic analysis.


• Analytical Rigor: A systems-thinking approach to security, with the ability to treat prompt engineering as a rigorous logic and control-flow discipline.


• Communication: Exceptional ability to translate the abstract world of agentic security into concrete, actionable roadmaps for both executives and junior engineers.

Base Pay Range: 168,560.00 - 231,770.00 USD Annual.

This position requires access to technology, software, and data that is controlled or restricted under U.S. law, regulation, executive order, or government contract.

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;


3. exercising sound judgment.