Smartsheet is a tech company with a human story to tell. We’re here to empower teams to manage projects, automate workflows, and rapidly build new secure solutions, using simple no-code tools. We’re revolutionaries – so for us changing the way the world works is all in a day’s work.
As a global leader in Collaborative Work Management and with a market cap of $10bn we’ve experienced incredible growth in EMEA, expanding from 1 team and 3 engineers in 2018 to 9 teams with over 70 engineers in 2024. As we expand into India and build out a new operation, we're searching for talented and motivated Principal Software Engineers who are passionate about continuous learning and eager to grow along with us in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
You Will:
- Lead the design and implementation of Smartsheet’s next-generation architecture, ensuring scalability, security, and performance for millions of global users.
- Define and drive architecture strategy, making key technical decisions that shape the future of the platform.
- Review and guide technical project designs, providing feedback during design review presentations to ensure system resilience and scalability.
- Take ownership of cross-functional technical initiatives, aligning teams around common architectural goals while driving large-scale projects to completion.
- Foster strong technical leadership, mentoring senior engineers and influencing best practices across multiple engineering teams.
- Lead deployment reviews for high-impact projects, ensuring they meet scalability, performance, and security requirements.
- Collaborate closely with product management and other business stakeholders to balance market needs with technical constraints, driving innovation while maintaining technical rigor.
- Advocate for quality and operational excellence, ensuring systems are monitored, tested, and maintained to meet the highest reliability standards.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
You Have:
- Proven experience in system architecture and the design of scalable, high- availability systems across multiple programming languages and frameworks (Python, Go, Java, C/C++, SQL).
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices.
- Strong experience in leading large-scale architectural transformations, with the ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams.
- Expertise in web application development, data structures, and object-oriented design.
- A track record of mentoring senior engineers, leading them through architectural challenges, and ensuring they grow into strong technical leaders.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior executives.
- Experience with cloud architectures and infrastructure at scale, as well as database optimization for performance and scalability.
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, driving initiatives forward while aligning with business objectives.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies, driving engineering best practices across teams.
- Legally eligible to work in India on an ongoing basis.
- Fluency in English is required.
Get to Know Us:
At Smartsheet, we’ve created a place where everyone is welcome — people from all over the world, all backgrounds, all ages, all colors, and all beliefs working side by side. Here, everyone can make a difference and empower others to do the same. You’re encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match our job description—if your career path has been nontraditional, that will set you apart. At Smartsheet, we empower everyone, everywhere to change the way the world works—join us!
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Smartsheet is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment with the best employees. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants in accordance with applicable laws in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Costa Rica, Japan, and Bulgaria. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
If there are preparations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.
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