Senior Principal Software Engineer

Overview

Senior Principal Software Engineer to drive technical direction and hands-on execution for Procore’s Owners team and foundational platform services.

What you'll do

• Own the multi-year technical vision and architecture for foundational platform services across multiple modalities.
• Set architectural direction, standards, and reference patterns and resolve high-leverage technical problems.
• Serve as final technical authority on consequential design decisions and drive alignment across divisions.
• Mentor and grow Principal and Staff engineers through architecture reviews and technical forums.
• Define Procore’s approach to AI-native engineering from SDLC workflows to production agentic systems.
• Remain hands-on by prototyping high-risk/high-reward bets, unblocking initiatives, and writing code/design documents.

What you'll need

• 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.
• Experience defining and delivering multi-year technical strategies that materially changed a business trajectory.
• Deep current expertise across the modern stack (Ruby on Rails, Go, Java, Node.js, Python; React, TypeScript).
• Mastery of distributed systems design, resilience, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Experience architecting agentic AI systems, integrating LLMs into products, and transforming SDLC practices with AI tooling.
• Executive-level communication and influence, comfortable presenting strategy to C-suite and board-level audiences.

Details

• Position reports to the Sr Engineering Director with opportunity to be located in the Bengaluru office.