Software Engineer, Streaming Data Infrastructure

What you’ll do:

• Lead and mentor the operations team, providing technical guidance, establishing best practices, and fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Drive strategic initiatives to define and execute the technical roadmap for Procore’s streaming data infrastructure, with a strong focus on Kafka and its ecosystem, including FedRAMP compliance requirements.
• Architect and design highly scalable and resilient streaming data infrastructure solutions, leading the development of automation frameworks, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and self-service tooling.
• Partner with engineering leadership to align infrastructure strategy with product goals, optimize streaming data pipelines for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Establish and enforce monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability standards for the streaming data platform to ensure proactive issue detection and rapid resolution.
• Drive system design reviews and provide technical mentorship through code reviews, architectural guidance, and troubleshooting of complex production issues across the organization.
• Lead incident response efforts and participate in on-call rotations, while building systems and processes that reduce operational burden and improve platform stability.
• Champion innovation and build strong partnerships with engineering teams to deliver a world‑class, self‑service streaming data platform with exceptional developer experience.

• 8+ years of professional experience in Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or similar infrastructure‑focused roles, with demonstrated experience leading and mentoring operations or infrastructure teams.
• Expert‑level knowledge of streaming data platforms, particularly Kafka, including architecture design, administration, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and capacity planning at scale.
• US Citizenship required to support FedRAMP‑compliant projects and federal government customers. Experience with compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, SOC 2, or similar regulatory requirements is highly valued.
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels, drive technical direction, facilitate discussions, and build consensus across teams.
• Demonstrated expertise leveraging AI‑powered development tools (e.g., Git Hub Copilot, ChatGPT, AI‑driven observability) to enhance team efficiency and engineering productivity.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including advanced understanding of compute, storage, networking, security, compliance, and managed service offerings.
• Mastery of infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) with experience implementing platform engineering solutions.
• Strong software engineering skills in modern programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go) for building automation, tooling, and internal platforms that enable team success.

Base Pay Range: 168,560.