Principal Cloud Architect

Job Description

What if you could use your technology skills to develop a product that impacts the way communities’ hospitals, homes, sports stadiums, and schools across the world are built? Construction impacts the lives of nearly everyone in the world, and yet it’s also one of the world’s least digitized industries. That’s why we’re looking for an experienced Cloud Architect to join Procore’s journey to build software that builds our world.

As a Cloud Architect of our Cloud Platform Division, you will lead the technical direction and execution against our mission to deliver a reliable, hardened, cost-effective, compliant cloud platform through a declarative, extensible set of provider-agnostic APIs. Leveraging your extensive experience, you will craft an aggressive multi-quarter architectural roadmap for the foundation of our runtime platform and work deep in the trenches with our engineers to iteratively deliver against this roadmap. You will work closely with our Product team and your peers to drive strategic alignment while ensuring we’re meeting the future needs of the business. This role is crucial to Procore's multi-year strategy - empowering our engineering teams to quickly deliver systems at scale both globally and across regulatory environments. If you have a passion for improving the lives of software engineers by building amazing systems at the intersection of software and infrastructure, we’d love to speak with you!

This position will report to the Vice President of Runtime Platform and Architecture located in Austin, TX office. We’re looking for someone to join our team immediately.

What you’ll do:

• Design and Implement Cloud-Agnostic Vision for Cloud Platform: Lead the design and implementation of a provider-agnostic Cloud Platform to ensure the seamless delivery of highly resilient systems across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.). This includes selecting appropriate cloud services based on compute, data, and security requirements.

• Foster a Culture of Engineering: Partner with Engineering Leadership to apply concepts such as Domain-Driven & Test-Driven Development to the Cloud Platform space to deliver extensible APIs with high quality and velocity. 

• Deploy Patterns of Event-Driven Architectures: Facilitate the development of our Cloud Platform into a set of robust, decoupled event-driven systems that reduce coordination cost between teams while enabling self-service delivery of software and infrastructure quickly and confidently. 

• Cross-Cloud Management and Operations: Establish strategies for empowering developers to self-manage their infrastructure and applications across multiple cloud platforms, ensuring optimal performance, cost-efficiency, and compliance with security and regulatory policies.

• Build Scalable and Resilient Systems: Design systems that are highly scalable and resilient to failures, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery capabilities across cloud providers. This includes implementing auto-scaling, failover strategies, and redundancy plans.

• Compliance and Secure by Design: Collaborate with security teams to embed security controls and compliance checks into the Cloud Platform, ensuring all cloud deployments adhere to industry and regulatory standards.

• Drive Innovation and Research: Stay abreast of the latest cloud technologies and trends. Lead the exploration and adoption of cutting-edge tools and practices to enhance the agility and efficiency of the Cloud Platform.

• Collaborate with Development Teams: Serve as an evangelist for our Cloud Platform, working with feature teams to understand application requirements, drive adoption, and ensure the Cloud Platform supports their needs.

• Educate and Mentor Team Members: Work closely with the Cloud Platform teams, educating and mentoring team members on cloud-agnostic practices, event-driven architecture, and best practices in cloud security and cost management. Drive adoption of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, facilitating a DevOps culture for cloud infrastructure systems.

What we're looking for:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related discipline; or comparable work experience. Technical Certifications are a plus.

• 15+ years of combined experience in Infrastructure / Platform Engineering. 

• Customer-facing architecture, engineering, and operations experience at enterprise-grade SaaS companies serving millions of users per day.

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