Staff Platform Engineer

We’re looking for Staff Engineer to join Procore’s Product & Technology Team. Procore software solutions aim to improve the lives of everyone in construction and the people within Product & Technology are the driving force behind our innovative, top-rated global platform. We’re a customer-centric group that encompasses engineering, product, product design and data, security and business systems

The Staff Engineer will join Procore’s Platform Services Division and be part of our exciting FedRAMP initiative. In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of building Procore’s next-generation construction platform services, a thrilling opportunity for others to build upon, including Procore developers, analysts, partners, and customers.
 
As a Staff Engineer, you'll be a key player in shaping the future of Procore. You’ll partner with other engineers and product managers across Product & Technology to develop and maintain platform services capabilities that enable SaaS-based products to operate in a FedRAMP-compliant environment. Your passion for distributed systems on the cloud and experience operating and maintaining cloud-based products at scale will be instrumental. We’d love to hear from you if you’re an engineer comfortable and excited about building our next-generation platform and translating problems into pragmatic solutions that open up the boundaries of technical possibilities!
 
This position reports to the Director of Platform Services based in our Austin, TX office.
We’re looking for someone to join us immediately. If you're ready to take on this exciting role, we're ready for you!
 
What you’ll do:

• Participate in the design and implementation of our next-generation network, observability, and secrets platform for the construction industry, primarily focused on building and supporting distributed systems
• Support our engineering team in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, functional and technical design, development, testing and roll-out, and support.
• Help identify and propose solutions for technical gaps in our platform by running proof of concepts and experiments.
• Work alongside our Product, UX, and IT teams, leveraging your experience and expertise in cloud technologies to influence our product roadmap and develop innovative solutions that add capabilities to our tools.
• As a Staff Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of the latest network, observability, and secret technology trends. If you're passionate about staying current and driving innovation, we'd love to hear from you.

 
What we’re looking for:

• Experience migrating teams to Istio
• Programming experience with golang and/or java is preferred 
• Experience migrating teams to Vault and OpenTelemetry preferred 
• 8+ years of experience building and operating cloud-based, highly available, distributed systems at petabyte scale
• Experience operating Kubernetes clusters
• Experience provisioning and operating cloud-native tools at scale, such as Istio (Tetrate), Kong, Datadog, Hashicorp Vault
• Experience and proficiency in managing infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation preferred 
• Experience with AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, SSM Parameter Store, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, PCA, etc.)