Senior software engineer II at Smartsheet Bengaluru, working across front end, back end, cloud infrastructure and test automation.

This full-time Bengaluru role was posted on 8 October 2026. The listing describes working on all areas of the software - front end, back end, cloud infrastructure and test automation - and driving high standards for internal services and the open source tooling and libraries the team maintains. Requirements include experience with distributed systems at scale and understanding event-driven architecture's principles, advantages and limitations.

About Smartsheet

Smartsheet builds a work management platform used by teams to plan, track and automate projects and processes. Per its listings, the company has operated for over 20 years and is now building AI-agent capabilities into the product.

Smartsheet has an engineering centre in Bengaluru with listings across product engineering, data and technical program roles. Learn more on Smartsheet's website.

The role in plain terms

The genuinely full-surface scope - frontend through infrastructure to test automation - suits a generalist who gets bored in one layer. The open source maintenance mention is notable: some of your work is public and community-facing, which raises the bar on code quality and documentation. The event-driven architecture requirement is specific enough to expect real questions on it, not buzzword matching.

The team and the work

Per the listing, the team maintains internal services and open source tooling, and the role sits in Smartsheet's India centre working on the core platform. The company's current product direction involves AI agents working alongside human teams.

What the employer asks for

These requirements are quoted from the employer's listing, kept in their exact words so eligibility details are not distorted:

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.

Who this role suits

Senior backend-leaning engineers with distributed-systems and event-driven architecture experience who enjoy owning services end to end. Not for narrow specialists or engineers without production event-driven systems exposure.

Practical notes

For roles spanning services and OSS tooling, expect system design questions on event-driven trade-offs plus a coding round. Any open source involvement of your own is worth surfacing.

Working at Smartsheet

Engineering at Smartsheet spans the web application platform, data infrastructure and newer AI orchestration features described in its current listings.

How to apply

Apply directly on the employer's site: Sr. Software Engineer II at Smartsheet. We found this listing on the Greenhouse public job board (job-boards.greenhouse.io), where it was posted on 8 Oct 2026 and was still open when we checked on 30 Oct 2026. Before applying, re-read the employer's own description in full, since eligibility details, deadlines and process steps can change at any time and the employer's page is always the final word. Tailor your resume to the specific requirements above rather than sending a generic one: mirror the skills and tools the listing names where you genuinely have them. A short, specific note on why this team and this problem interest you goes further than a long generic cover letter. Never pay a fee to apply or interview; genuine employers, including this one, do not charge candidates.

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