Principal Secdevops Engineer

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, not to mention one of the most dangerous. That’s why we’re looking for a Principal Security Engineer to join Procore’s journey to revolutionize a historically underserved industry. 

As a Principal Security Engineer, you’ll be a key member of the CyberSecurity Platform Security Engineering Department. You’ll also work internally to understand the Procore Application & supporting infrastructure. This role requires a strong background in security as it relates 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 Director of Security Engineering, Platform Security and has the opportunity to be based in our Austin, TX Office location. 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 security mentor for the Security Engineering team, as well as an influencer of the Cloud Runtime Engineering team

• Work closely with Security Architecture, Product, Cloud Runtime Engineering, and Legal

• Work across Terraform, 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, and data masking, and tokenization.

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

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

• Deep 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 (Prismacloud,Crowdstrike,Falco)

  • WAF technologies (Cloudflare)

  • Security Observability and analytics (ELK, Elastic)

  • Networking protocol knowledge (e.g., TCP/IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS, routing protocols)

• Basic project management skills, experience creating application documentation, and demonstrated ability to train other team members

• Experience creating engineering as-built diagrams and data flow diagrams to describe engineered product

• Technical Certifications are a plus (GIAC, OCSP, CISSP, AWS Security Specialty, Solutions Architect, etc)

Qualifications