Director, Engineering (Hybrid in Bangalore)

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has helped people and teams achieve–well, anything. From seamless work management to smart, scalable solutions, we’ve always worked with flow. We’re building tools that empower teams to automate the manual, uncover insights, and scale smarter. But more than that, we’re creating space– space to think big, take action, and unlock the kind of work that truly matters. Because when challenge meets purpose, and passion turns into progress, that’s magic at work, and it’s what we show up for everyday.

As a global leader in Collaborative Work Management and with a market cap of $10bn we’ve experienced incredible growth in EMEA, expanding from one team and three engineers in 2018 to 9 teams with over 70 engineers in 2024. Now we’re continuing to expand in India.

As the Director of Engineering, you will build capabilities to empower the world's largest companies to transform their approach to work. You will support teams that own identity and access as well as features that IT Administrators use to manage and secure their users and their work. You will maximize strategic outcomes through execution and service operations while helping engineers excel in their career.

You Will:

• Comfortable accepting responsibility for impact, service availability, and the effectiveness of your teams.

• Willing to challenge technical choices and your business partners to maximize impact together.

• Passionate about continuous improvement and have built learning organizations that keep up with the state-of-the-art and set an example for your team.

• An expert at Agile, continuous delivery, DevOps and will advocate for the culture and processes required to maintain smooth high-quality delivery.

• Dive deep into technology and are on the forefront of the latest tools and strategies and help evaluate, prototype, and introduce them to our team.

• Provide coaching and leadership in software best practices, automated test strategies, and work toward flattening the cost of change curve for our software services.

• Articulate both in writing and when speaking to different audiences, including executives, customers and engineers.

• A talent magnet that builds diverse teams and retains the best by keeping them engaged and motivated.

• Experienced balancing delivery and technical debt through refactoring.

• Perform other duties as assigned

You Have:

• 4+ years microservice web application development.

• 10+ years of combined system architecture experience across at least 3 languages and frameworks.

• 3+ years experience managing software organizations with >20 people.

• Experience with tools such as CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing, API Gateway, AWS Lambda, EC2, Route 53, etc.

• Experience with NoSQL, Relational Databases, Object Store architectures across globally replicated cloud instances

• Experience building autoscaling, distributed systems

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in API design, data structures, and algorithms.

• Training and experience with Agile and Lean methodologies

• Legally eligible to work in India on an ongoing basis

• Fluency in English is required

Get to Know Us:

At Smartsheet, your ideas are heard, your potential is supported, and your contributions have real impact. You’ll have the freedom to explore, push boundaries, and grow beyond your role. We welcome diverse perspectives and nontraditional paths—because we know that impact comes from individuals who care deeply and challenge thoughtfully. When you’re doing work that stretches you, excites you, and connects you to something bigger, that’s magic at work. Let’s build what’s next, together.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Smartsheet is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment with the best employees. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants in accordance with applicable laws in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Costa Rica, Japan, Bulgaria, and India. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

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