Principal Software Engineer, Core Experiences (Remote Eligible)
Smartsheet10 hours ago
Base Salary
$205k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end architecture of the sheet data platform across transactional databases and the lakehouse, including lifecycle, retention, schema evolution, asynchronous access, and consistency.
- Design services and APIs supporting real-time collaboration for millions of users and machine-scale AI-agent access.
- Identify major technical opportunities, validate them with prototypes, and convert them into funded initiatives.
- Plan and execute petabyte-scale production data migrations with phased cutovers, backfills, reconciliation, verification, and rollback paths.
- Scope and deliver multi-quarter initiatives with milestones, risk tracking, and cross-team coordination.
- Influence roadmaps and platform or vendor decisions across Product, Data Platform, AI Platform, and Infrastructure.
- Write architecture decisions, RFCs, and standards and lead design reviews.
- Define patterns and guardrails for AI integration into multi-system architectures and engineering workflows.
- Develop high-performing production software in Java or Kotlin on AWS and Kubernetes, conduct deep code reviews, and mentor senior and staff engineers.
- Participate in on-call and lead complex incidents, performance investigations, and root-cause remediation.
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 development experience and comfort working across the stack.
- Experience designing and operating asynchronous, event-driven systems on AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure, including ordering, idempotency, back-pressure, partial failure, and consistency concerns.
- Experience owning very large relational or distributed datastores, tuning and scaling them, and migrating data without customer impact.
- Experience taking ambiguous, high-stakes technical projects from prototype to production across multiple teams.
- Experience authoring design documents, RFCs, or standards adopted by an engineering organization.
- Experience building LLM-enriched workflows that delivered measurable value to SaaS customers.
- 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.
- Preferred experience with 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.
- 401(k) match of 50% of employee contributions up to the first 6% of eligible pay.
- Monthly stipend supporting work and productivity.
- Flexible Time Away Program, sick time off, 12 paid holidays, and up to 24 weeks of parental leave.
- Employer-sponsored life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Personal paid Volunteer Day and professional development opportunities including Udemy courses.
- Company-funded perks including counseling membership, local retail discounts, and a personal Smartsheet account.
- Remote work is available from any U.S. location where Smartsheet is a registered employer.
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About Smartsheet
Smartsheet builds a cloud-based enterprise work management platform for project and portfolio tracking, automation, reporting, and collaboration used by business and IT teams. It sells SaaS subscriptions with premium capabilities and add-ons, and integrates with tools like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Slack. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, Smartsheet is publicly traded on the NYSE (SMAR) and owns Brandfolder, a digital asset management product.