Smartsheet
Sr. Software Engineer II
Requirements
The ideal candidate has extensive experience with Java, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures. You must be a supportive leader with strong communication skills and a proven ability to solve complex technical challenges.
Responsibilities
You will work across the full software stack, including front-end, back-end, and cloud infrastructure, while driving high engineering standards and CI/CD practices. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.
About the role
For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Our India Global Capability Center isn't just supporting global operations—we’re leading global innovation. After scaling rapidly into a best-in-class hub, we deliver the product innovation and enterprise capabilities that accelerate our global growth, profitability, and scale. As we expand Smartsheet India, we’re searching for Senior Software Engineers who crave variety and ownership. Whether your expertise is in front-end, back-end, test automation, ops, or infrastructure, you’ll have the opportunity to work across multiple teams and disciplines, building a versatile skillset while solving the complex challenges of a global platform. You Will: Work on all areas of the software from front end, back end, cloud infrastructure and test automation. Drive high standards within the team for all internal services and open source tooling/libraries we maintain. Deploy service and infrastructure changes frequently in a lean agile environment using full CI/CD. Contribute in all aspects of product development: idea generation, customer engagement, planning, design, prototyping, execution, shipping, and operational excellence. Collaborate with a team of passionate, engaged engineers, and with cross-functional teams that include product managers, UX designers, UX researchers, and more. Actively mentor more junior engineers, showing how to balance customer delivery while holding high coding, service, and cloud infrastructure standards. Apply different approaches to problem solving and help validate your ideas and those of your teammates. Help define success for yourself, your team, and the features you help to conceive, build, and ship. Perform other duties as assigned. You Are: Proficient with at Java Familiar with algorithms, data structures, and coding best practices. Curious, and always want to get to the bottom of why things work the way they do. A supportive leader. You want to help people get unstuck, and can easily recognise that teams are more effective when colleagues look for opportunities to help one another. A great communicator. You can break a concept down based on your audience, whether they’re technical or non-technical - and your medium, whether it’s verbal, in prose, or in code. A builder who takes pride in your craft and works toward quality. An empathic individual who can help translate customer feedback and needs into features that solve problems. Someone who views bugs, mistakes, and compiler errors as opportunities to learn. Legally eligible to work in India on an ongoing basis. Fluency in English is required. You Have: Experience with distributed systems at scale. Understands event-driven architecture’s principles, advantages and limitations, and can apply it appropriately. Hands-on experience with Kinesis, Kafka, or similar. Experience with Java. Experience with improving large-scale event processing systems is desirable. Experience with database log streams e.g. MS-SQL Transaction Logs, MySQL Bin Logs is desirable. Experience with stream processing frameworks such as Flink, Spark, or other is desirable. Squad lead or team lead experience is desirable. Get to Know Us: At Smartsheet, your ideas are heard, your potential is supported, and your contributions have real impact. You’ll have the freedom to explore, push boundaries, and grow beyond your role. We welcome diverse perspectives and nontraditional paths—because we know that impact comes from individuals who care deeply and challenge thoughtfully. When you’re doing work that stretches you, excites you, and connects you to something bigger, that’s magic at work. Let’s build what’s next, together. 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, Bulgaria, India, and Singapore. 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. #LI-Remote