Sr. Software Engineer II

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.