Staff Software Engineer

Procore; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their DevOps Tools Team in Austin, TX. This role involves designing and building scalable platform services to support operational excellence, including managing secrets and data pipelines. Ideal candidates should have strong software development skills, experience in DevOps practices, and a passion for mentoring engineers. The position offers a chance to influence the reliability of the company's platform and tools.

Qualifications

• Experience in building and maintaining operational tools.
• Strong design principles in developing platform services.
• Ability to mentor other engineers in DevOps tools.

Responsibilities

• Implement robust and scalable platform software components.
• Create and share best practices for the DevOps tools space.
• Participate in on-call rotation supporting production tools.
• Own the architectural lifecycle of operational data pipelines.
• Drive the transition to a Zero Trust, identity-based model.

Skills

Software development

DevOps practices

Data pipeline engineering

Mentoring

Operational data management

Tools

Databricks

Procore Vault

OIDC frameworks

Job description

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join Procore's Platform Services Division. In this role, you will build and maintain tools that support the operational excellence of services and the platform.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the DevOps Tools Team, you will be responsible for designing and building platform services that address secrets management, operational ingestion pipeline, asset inventory, and compliance needs. You will combine your people and technical skills along with good design principles to create platforms developers can easily integrate with. The goal of this team is to help Procore maintain a high level of reliability through building tools for operational excellence. The impact of this team is wide as it touches all aspects of Procore's ecosystem. Come be a part of a great team and company!

This position reports to the Engineering Manager of the DevOps Tools team and will be based in our Austin, TX office. We're looking for someone to join us immediately.

What you'll do:

• Implement robust and scalable platform software components.
• Mentor. Create and share best practices for the devops tools space with other engineers.
• Participate in on-call rotation supporting the team's production tools.
• Engineer End-to-End Operational Data Pipelines: Own the architectural lifecycle of our operational data pipeline, from high-throughput event ingestion to ensuring data reliability across critical analytical sinks. You will be responsible for the entire flow-receiving infrastructure events, discovery data, and security signals, and landing them into sinks such as Databricks and Compass for advanced compliance analysis and platform health monitoring.
• Rollout Procore's Vault-backed Secrets Management Platform (SMP), driving the strategic transition from legacy static credentials to a Zero Trust, identity-based model through the implementation of OIDC and automated dynamic credential frameworks.