Principal Software Engineer

About the role

Smartsheet is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of next-generation architecture. This role involves defining technical strategy, mentoring senior engineers, and ensuring system scalability and performance for a global user base. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation while maintaining high standards for reliability and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Required skills

• System architecture
• Python
• Go
• Java
• C/C++
• SQL
• Distributed systems
• Event-driven architectures
• Microservices
• Web application development
• Cloud architectures
• Database optimization
• Agile
• Scrum

Qualifications

• Legally eligible to work in Bulgaria on an ongoing basis
• Fluency in English

About the Company

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. The company is currently focused on uniting human teams with AI agents to automate tasks and uncover insights at scale.