Principal SE - Big Data Platform

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 1 team and 3 engineers in 2018 to 9 teams with over 70 engineers in 2024. As we expand into India and build out a new operation, we’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Big Data Platform team, where you’ll play a key role in shaping the architecture, pipelines, and infrastructure that power our data-driven products. This is an opportunity to grow alongside a fast-paced, innovative team, continuously learning while making a tangible impact on how we manage and leverage petabytes of structured and unstructured data for analytics, AI, and business insights.

You Will:

• Data Architecture and Design: Designing and overseeing the architecture of scalable and reliable data platforms, including data pipelines, storage solutions, and processing systems

• Data Modelling and Management:Developing and implementing data models, ensuring data quality, and establishing data governance policies

• Data Pipeline Development: Building and optimising data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and transforming large datasets from various sources

• Performance Optimisation: Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in data pipelines and systems, ensuring efficient data retrieval and processing

• Technology Evaluation and Innovation: Staying abreast of emerging data technologies and exploring opportunities for innovation to improve the organisation’s data infrastructure

• Troubleshooting and Problem Solving: Diagnosing and resolving complex data-related issues, ensuring the stability and reliability of the data platform

• Data Security and Compliance: Implementing data security measures, ensuring compliance with data governance policies, and protecting sensitive data

• Perform other duties as assigned

You Have:

• Enterprise SaaS software solutions with high availability and scalability

• Solution handling large scale structured and unstructured data from varied data sources

• Experience in building and maintaining data platform systems such as distributed compute, data orchestration, distributed storage, streaming infrastructure ensuring scalability, reliability, efficiency and security

• Working with Product engineering team to influence designs with data, AI and analytics use cases in mind

• In depth experience in System design involving large Petabytes of data with Databricks Lakehouse

• Experience in modern AI/Data infrastructure patterns, Semantics layer Organizing data for AI agents (metadata, context)

• AWS, GCP, Snowflake and Data pipeline frameworks like Airbyte/Airflow

• Programming languages like Python, SQL, and potentially Java or Scala

• Modern software engineering practices like Kubernetes, CI/CD, IAC tools (Preferably Terraform), Observability, monitoring and alerting

• Solution Cost Optimisations and design to cost

• Driving engineering excellence initiative

• 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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