Staff Software Engineer - Traffic

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join Procore’s Traffic team within Developer Acceleration . In this role, you’ll serve as a technical leader for our traffic and edge networking ecosystem, driving the design and evolution of the API gateways, CDN, and ingress/egress infrastructure that sit in front of nearly every request Procore serves . Your primary goal is to set the technical direction for critical initiatives—including our migration off legacy API gateway technology to modern, cloud-native alternatives—while mentoring engineers across a globally distributed team .

As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll partner with Engineering Management, Security, and peer Developer Acceleration teams - including Secrets & Observability- to ensure our traffic layer meets the reliability, security, and compliance bar that Procore’s global customer base depends on . Use your deep expertise in API gateways, service mesh, and CDN/edge technologies to deliver resilient, scalable, and elegantly simple traffic infrastructure that serves as the backbone of Procore’s platform .

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This position reports into the Senior Engineering Manager, Traffic and will be based in our Cairo, Egypt office . We’re looking for someone to join us immediately .

What you’ll do

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Set the overall technical tone and direction for Traffic initiatives focusing on modern, cloud-native alternatives .

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Design, implement, and maintain scalable ingress/egress infrastructure, including API gateways, CDN/Edge Compute configurations, mTLS, and DNS .

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Serve as the subject matter expert within the traffic and edge networking domain, championing best practices across tools, processes, and procedures .

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Partner with Security and compliance-focused teams to ensure traffic infrastructure meets Security & Compliance Controls and other regulatory requirements .

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Leverage AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to accelerate delivery, automate routine tasks, and improve code quality across the team .

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Mentor and develop teammates through code reviews, pairing, and training, actively growing a distributed engineering team across time zones .

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Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across services, platforms, and infrastructure, serving as an escalation point during incidents .

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Build and maintain comprehensive documentation and runbooks to ensure operational knowledge scales with the team .

What we’re looking for

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Experience: 8+ years of combined experience as a Software, Systems, Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineer, with a proven track record of technical leadership .

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Strong experience in one of the following programming languages (Go, Python, Typescript, Ruby)

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Technical Expertise: Deep experience with API gateway and service mesh technologies (such as Kong and Envoy Proxy/Gateway) and production experience with CDN and edge platforms at scale .

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Networking Knowledge: Strong understanding of DNS, ingress/egress networking, and cloud networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, peering) .

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Tooling & Security: Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform, Helm); familiarity with secrets management and Zero Trust patterns (HashiCorp Vault, OIDC) is a plus .

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AI Literacy: An AI-First Development Mindset with proficiency leveraging AI tools (Claude, LLM Gateways, and autonomous agents) to accelerate the software development lifecycle .

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Systems Thinking: A systems thinker who finds enjoyment in the complexities of distributed systems, balanced with a pragmatic commitment to shipping working, high-quality code .

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Communication & Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical direction and collaborate across time zones .

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Leadership: Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and up-leveling the technical discourse of a team .