Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Golang)

Ever wanted to build the engine that keeps millions of documents flowing without a hiccup? We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Austin to own a mission-critical document-rendering microservice, written in Go and backed by Postgres, that turns templates, reports, and exports into reliable, lightning-fast delivery at serious scale. You’ll take a Rails monolith and break it into something clean, modular, and a joy to work in, setting the patterns and standards the whole team builds on, and ship work that people across the company (and our customers) notice. If you get a kick out of elegant solutions to gnarly problems, you’ll fit right in.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will provide hands-on engineering to design and maintain this high-performance codebase using Golang and a Postgres backend. You’ll partner closely with cross-functional teams—including engineering, product, architecture, and infrastructure—to gather requirements, ensure system reliability, and deliver customer-centric solutions with measurable business impact.

You will influence technical direction, uphold code quality, and accelerate Procore’s ability to deliver a world-class file services platform at extreme scale.

This position reports to a Software Engineering Manager and is a 2 days per week hybrid role in our Austin, TX office.

What you’ll do:

• Architect, design, and build a scalable, high-performance microservice for document rendering using Golang and Postgres.
• Evolve our existing codebase from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application into a modular system with clear, well-enforced domain boundaries and a coherent public interface
• Define domain boundaries, architectural patterns, and standards that improve reliability, maintainability, and development velocity.
• Drive system-level improvements in performance, resilience, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Establish and uphold engineering best practices, including testing strategies (TDD), code reviews, instrumentation, and comprehensive documentation.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and lead root cause analysis for complex issues to implement effective, long-term solutions.
• Act as a technical collaborator and mentor, providing constructive feedback to peers to maintain code quality and enable the team to deliver autonomously.
• Partner with infrastructure, platform, and DevOps teams to define standards for deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, and reliability automation.

What we're looking for: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of professional experience in Object-Oriented Programming, with deep expertise in Go, Ruby on Rails and Postgres.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and best practices for building scalable web applications.
• Experience designing and operating systems on cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), with an emphasis on reliability and observability.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes as well as experience programming in Ruby on Rails is a strong plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to understand tradeoffs, balancing immediate needs with long-term strategic initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to document and bring team clarity to complex technical solutions.
• Curiosity, drive, and customer-focus—you love solving real problems with elegant solutions.

Base Pay Range:

This role may also be eligible for Equity Compensation and/or Bonus Incentive Compensation. Procore is committed to offering competitive, fair, and commensurate compensation. Actual compensation will be based on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, education or training, and location.

This position requires access to technology, software, and data that is controlled or restricted under U.S. law, regulation, executive order, or government contract.

Procore will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

A criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: 1. appropriately managing, accessing, and handling confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information, as well as accessing Procore's information technology systems and platforms; 2. interacting with and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external customers, stakeholders, and/or colleagues; and 3. exercising sound judgment.