Senior Principal Software Engineer

2 hours ago

Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

Own the multi-year technical vision and architecture for foundational platform services across web, mobile, API, and agentic surfaces.
Set company-wide architectural standards, patterns, and technical direction, resolving high-leverage technical problems across engineering.
Serve as the final technical authority for consequential decisions involving distributed systems, platforms, data, and AI/agentic architecture.
Mentor Principal and Staff engineers and raise engineering standards through architecture reviews, design councils, and technical strategy forums.
Define and promote Procore’s AI-native engineering approach, including agentic development workflows and production agentic systems.
Prototype high-risk initiatives, unblock critical projects, and write code and design documents that establish organizational exemplars.
Partner with executives, VPs, product, UX, and business leaders to translate strategy into durable technology plans and ensure execution.

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, 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 defining and delivering multi-year technical strategies involving platform consolidations, re-architectures, or large-scale product platforms.
Deep current expertise with modern technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Go, Java, Node.js, Python, React, and TypeScript.
Mastery of distributed systems design, resilience, scalability, and operational excellence.
Hands-on experience architecting agentic AI systems, integrating LLMs into products, and applying AI tooling to SDLC practices at production scale.
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 skills, including presenting strategy to C-suite and board-level audiences.

The position offers the opportunity to work with teams across Engineering, Product Management, UX, and Architecture on next-generation construction platform initiatives.
The role is located in Procore’s Bengaluru office.
The team is seeking someone to join immediately.