At Procore, we’re building the platform that builds the world. From high-rise skyscrapers to essential infrastructure, million-dollar decisions and massive global construction projects rely on Procore every single second.
As the Senior Manager of Engineering for the Authorization team, you will lead a pivotal engineering team responsible for creating intuitive authorization user experiences, driving platform enablement for effortless adoption across internal product teams, and scaling high-performance authorization capabilities that process huge, complex enterprise datasets.
Authorization at Procore is a shared global mission: your team will co-build and partner closely with counterpart engineering teams in the US, making cross-geo collaboration a core pillar of your leadership and impact.
Why Join Procore IAM?
- Massive Scale & Big Data: Architect and scale authorization engines built to evaluate access controls efficiently across massive, multi-tenant datasets with sub-second speeds.
- Focus on UX & Enablement: Drive developer enablement and intuitive user experiences that make fine-grained authorization frictionless to integrate and effortless for end-users to navigate.
- Cross-Geo Co-Ownership: Collaborate tightly with US-based IAM engineering teams to co-create foundational identity capabilities that power Procore’s global enterprise ecosystem.
- Culture of Excellence: Flourish in a high-trust engineering environment built on Openness, Ownership, and Optimism, where autonomy and innovation are celebrated.
What You'll Do
- Cross-Geo Engineering Leadership: Partner seamlessly with US-based engineering teams to co-design, co-build, and roll out core platform authorization capabilities.
- Scaling for Huge Datasets: Oversee the architectural strategy and execution to scale authorization engines capable of performing fast policy evaluations across massive enterprise datasets.
- User Experience & Ease of Adoption: Champion exceptional user experience and developer enablement, delivering clean APIs, SDKs, and intuitive admin tooling to accelerate platform-wide adoption.
- Strategic Technical Vision: Translate enterprise requirements into scalable technical roadmaps for fine-grained authorization, policy enforcement, and access controls.
- People Leadership & Growth: Mentor, coach, and empower a team of senior and staff engineers, cultivating an inclusive culture of technical mastery and continuous innovation.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Management, Security, Architecture, and enterprise stakeholders across geographies to align authorization roadmap goals with company growth.
Qualifications
- Engineering Leadership Experience: 5+ years of experience directly managing software engineering teams, with a track record of hiring, coaching, and scaling senior technical talent.
- Cross-Geo / Distributed Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to lead engineering initiatives that rely heavily on tight collaboration across regions and time zones (specifically with US engineering teams).
- High-Scale Software Systems: Deep background (8+ years in software engineering) building and scaling distributed backend architectures that execute high-throughput query/permission checks on massive datasets.
- Developer Enablement & UX Empathy: Strong focus on developer ergonomics, platform ease-of-adoption, intuitive admin interfaces, and clear API design.
- Communication & Influence: Excellent written and verbal communication skills to align cross-geo partners, executives, and cross-functional leadership on technical vision.
- Identity & Access Control Knowledge (nice to have): Good grasp of one or several Authorization concepts (RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, Fine-Grained Authorization, Open Policy Agent / Zanzibar models).
