Job Description

Procore is looking for a Principal Security Engineer to join our journey to revolutionize the historically underserved construction industry. 

In this role, you’ll be a key member of the Security Engineering Department. You’ll work with the M&A deal team to evaluate the security practices of target companies, estimate the level of effort to remediate, and lead security remediation efforts post acquisition. As a Principal Security Engineer, you’ll also work internally to understand the Procore Application & supporting infrastructure. This role requires a strong background in security related to platform infrastructure, application security, and other aspects of network/cloud infrastructure security. If you’re interested in becoming a foundational member of the Procore security team, setting the course for security within Procore for years to come—we’d like to hear from you.

This position will report to our Sr Director of Security Engineering and has the opportunity to be based in any of our US office locations. Remote candidates will be considered with experience. We’re looking for someone to join us immediately.

What you’ll do:

• Apply suitable design patterns to manage the privacy and security of customer data within our production environment

• Understand the security and general architectural vision of Procore 2.0

• Be a technical mentor for the Privacy & Security Engineering team, as well as an influencer of the Data Engineering team

• Work closely with Security Architecture, Product, Data Engineering, and Legal

• Work across Ruby on Rails, Apache, Nginx, Snowflake, data Analytics, PostgreSQL, AWS tech stacks

What we are looking for:

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience is required; MS or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred

• 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering with at least 5 years of experience building security products and internal security tools

• Experience with conducting threat assessments and building threat models

• Differential Privacy techniques as they apply to access to sensitive data, anonymization and sharing; thorough understanding of vulnerability classes (OWASP), how they can be exploited

• Knowledge of cryptography, including symmetric and asymmetric ciphers, hash functions, PKI, and certificates. Application of cryptography to software engineering problems, such as secrets management, authentication, data masking, and tokenization.

• Understanding of open standards such as OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, and TLS

• Familiarity with data privacy laws such as GDPR and CCPA and related data security requirements

• Technical Certifications are a plus (GIAC, OCSP, CISSP)

• Background and experience in AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, KMS, Cloudfront, Secrets Manager, Route53, S3, Lambda) and orchestration tools; IAM implementation; Linux Systems; Hashicorp Technologies (Consul, Terraform, Vault, Packer); Containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and Container Management (Istio, EKS,Secrets management); Config Management (Puppet, Ansible, Salt); Endpoint host protection technologies (Crowdstrike, Falco); WAF technologies; Security Observability and analytics; Networking protocol knowledge (e.g., TCP/IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS, routing protocols)

Additional Information

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About Us

Procore Technologies is building the software that builds the world. We provide cloud-based construction management software that helps clients more efficiently build skyscrapers, hospitals, retail centers, airports, housing complexes, and more. At Procore, we have worked hard to create and maintain a culture where you can own your work and are encouraged and given resources to try new ideas. Check us out on Glassdoor to see what others are saying about working at Procore. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome builders of all backgrounds. We thrive in a diverse, dynamic, and inclusive environment. We do not tolerate discrimination against employees on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.

Perks & Benefits

You are a person with dreams, goals, and ambitions—both personally and professionally. That's why we believe in providing benefits that not only match our Procore values (Openness, Optimism, and Ownership) but enhance the lives of our team members. Here are just a few of our benefit offerings: generous paid vacation, employee stock purchase plan, enrichment and development programs, and friends and family events.