Sr. Software Engineer II
Senior Software Engineer at Smartsheet's Bangalore Global Capability Center, working across the full platform: front end, back end, cloud infrastructure, and test automation. Core focus is Java and large-scale event-driven distributed systems (Kafka/Kinesis, stream processing), shipping via CI/CD while mentoring junior engineers.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bangalore, INDIA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 20+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proficient with Java
- Experience with Java
- Familiar with algorithms, data structures, and coding best practices
- 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
- Legally eligible to work in India on an ongoing basis
- Fluency in English
- Great communicator with technical and non-technical audiences
- Supportive leader able to mentor junior engineers
Nice to have
- Experience with improving large-scale event processing systems
- Experience with database log streams, e.g. MS-SQL Transaction Logs, MySQL Bin Logs
- Experience with stream processing frameworks such as Flink or Spark
- Squad lead or team lead experience
Full description
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.