Senior Principal Software Engineer, Ruby

4 days ago

H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$233k - $321k/yr

Responsibilities

Own the multi-year technical vision and architecture for foundational platform services across web, mobile, API, and agentic surfaces.
Set company-wide architectural direction, standards, and reference patterns while resolving high-leverage technical problems.
Serve as the final technical authority for major distributed systems, platform, data, and AI/agentic architecture decisions.
Mentor Principal and Staff engineers and raise engineering standards through architecture reviews, design councils, and technical strategy forums.
Define and evangelize Procore’s AI-native engineering approach, including agentic development workflows and production agentic systems.
Remain hands-on by prototyping strategic initiatives, unblocking critical work, and writing exemplar code and design documents.
Partner with executives and VPs to translate business and product strategy into durable technology strategy.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or comparable work experience.
15+ years of software engineering experience building and operating large-scale, distributed, full-stack systems.
5+ years operating at Principal level or above with organization-wide or company-wide technical scope.
Track record of delivering multi-year technical strategies involving platform consolidations, re-architectures, or large-scale product platforms.
Deep expertise in modern web, backend, distributed systems, resilience, scalability, and operational excellence.
Hands-on experience architecting agentic AI systems, integrating LLMs into products, and transforming software development practices with AI tooling.
Recognized technical authority demonstrated through cross-division influence, industry presence, patents, publications, open-source leadership, or comparable impact.
Exceptional judgment in ambiguity and executive-level communication with technical, business, C-suite, and board-level audiences.

Hybrid schedule requiring two days per week in the Austin, Texas office.
Immediate start requested.
Base pay range of $233,360.00–$320,870.00 annually, with potential eligibility for equity and/or bonus incentive compensation.