Principal Software Engineer, Core Experiences

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $205k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Smartsheet

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

Smartsheet is a platform designed to manage projects, automate workflows, and build solutions at scale. It offers a wide range of features including automation, team collaboration, dashboards and reporting, and integrations, allowing businesses to streamline their operations. The platform caters to diverse use cases such as project management, IT portfolio management, marketing management, and more, serving various industries including government, finance, and healthcare. Smartsheet also emphasizes security and data protection, ensuring users' data privacy. Additionally, it offers professional services like consulting, training, and implementation support to maximize the platform's capabilities.

📋 Description

• Set technical direction for systems at the heart of Smartsheet • Architect the sheet data platform across transactional databases and the lakehouse platform • Design services and APIs for real-time collaboration and AI agents at machine scale • Identify major technical opportunities and risks, build prototypes, and turn them into funded initiatives • Plan and execute petabyte-scale production data migrations with zero customer impact • Create phased multi-quarter plans, track progress, report risks, and deliver on time • Partner with Product, Data Platform, AI Platform, and Infrastructure across organizational boundaries • Write architecture decisions, RFCs, and engineering standards; lead design reviews • Define patterns and guardrails for AI capabilities in complex architectures and software development • Write high-performing Java on AWS and Kubernetes; perform deep code reviews • Mentor senior and staff engineers on distributed systems and data-intensive design • Participate in on-call, lead complex incidents, investigate database and infrastructure bottlenecks, and drive root-cause improvements

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years building highly scalable, highly available, low-latency systems, including several years operating at Principal or Staff level • Production-quality Java or Kotlin experience and ability to work comfortably across the stack • Experience designing and running asynchronous, event-driven systems on AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure • Knowledge of ordering, idempotency, back-pressure, partial failure, and consistency across service boundaries • Experience owning systems backed by very large relational or distributed datastores • Experience tuning, scaling, outgrowing, and migrating large data systems without customer impact • Experience taking high-stakes technical problems from prototype to production across multiple teams • Experience writing design docs, RFCs, or standards adopted by an engineering organization • Experience building LLM-enriched workflows that delivered measurable value to SaaS customers • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical industry experience • Legally eligible to work in the U.S. on an ongoing basis • Nice to have: Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Spark, Snowflake, Apache Iceberg, Kafka, Kinesis, MCP servers, agent-facing APIs, or real-time collaborative applications

🏖️ Benefits

• Employer subsidized medical/vision and dental coverage for full-time employees • 401k Match: 50% of your contribution up to the first 6% of your eligible pay • Monthly stipend to support your work and productivity • Flexible Time Away Program, plus Sick Time Off • Smartsheet-sponsored life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability plans • 12 paid holidays per year • Up to 24 weeks of Parental Leave • Personal paid Volunteer Day • Opportunities for professional growth and development including access to Udemy online courses • Company Funded Perks, including a counseling membership, local retail discounts, and your own personal Smartsheet account • Teleworking options from any registered location in the U.S. (role specific) • Market competitive incentive opportunity