Smartsheet is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of its next-generation architecture, ensuring scalability, security, and performance for millions of global users. In this hybrid role based in Bangalore, you will define and drive architecture strategy, making key technical decisions that shape the future of the platform.
What You'll Do
- 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.
- Drive the strategic integration of sophisticated AI capabilities into complex multi-system architectures, defining patterns and best practices, serving as a thought leader who identifies and leads AI initiatives to address technical challenges and improve productivity across groups.
- Advocate for quality and operational excellence, ensuring systems are monitored, tested, and maintained to meet the highest reliability standards.
What We're Looking For
- 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.
Technical Stack
- Python
- Go
- Java
- C/C++
- SQL
Team & Environment
Our EMEA engineering organization has expanded from 1 team and 3 engineers in 2018 to 9 teams with over 70 engineers in 2024. We are building out a new operation in India.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position based in Bangalore, India.
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, Bulgaria, and India. 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.
