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Smartsheet Manager, Engineering in Bellevue, Washington
This full-time position reports to the Director, Engineering and can be located in our Bellevue, WA office, or you may work remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer.
You Will:
- Manage one or more related teams of 6--10+ software engineers, driving development of tier 0 grid services and platform infrastructure that millions of customers depend on daily.
- Own and uphold 99.999% service availability targets across critical platform services, embedding reliability engineering, incident management, and on-call rigor into team culture.
- Help architect and guide technical vision to evolve low-latency, high-throughput service platforms capable of sustaining millions requests per day with predictable, consistent performance under load.
- Guide and mentor engineers on distributed systems architecture, scalability patterns, and platform best practices while leading design reviews for high-stakes system components.
- Lead cross-functional technical efforts spanning multiple upstream dependents, partner teams, and internal consumers, building alignment and resolving systemic dependencies across the organization.
- Plan and deliver complex, end-to-end infrastructure projects with high technical ambiguity, managing risks, communicating clearly to stakeholders, and building cross-team consensus.
- Drive SLO/SLA definition, capacity planning, performance benchmarking, and observability strategy across your platform services.
- Partner closely with product management, infrastructure, security, and other engineering pillars to shape technical roadmaps and contribute to long-range platform strategy.
- Hire exceptional engineering talent and grow your teams by attracting, developing, and advancing great engineers strategically across multiple teams.
- Mentor and coach both individual contributors and managers within and beyond your teams, identifying and developing potential successors.
- Own quarterly and annual technical and operational goals for your platform area, managing metrics, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Communicate effectively with executives and non-technical stakeholders, anticipating cross-team conflicts and proactively driving resolution.
- Champion AI adoption in both software and platform engineering lifecycles, leveraging shared learnings to improve operational efficiency and customer experiences.
You Have:
8+ years of software development, strong CS fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, systems design).
3+ years of engineering management, leading high-availability infrastructure/platform services.
Proven track record owning and operating tier 0/mission-critical systems with five-nines (99.999%) availability.
Hands-on experience building/operating low-latency, high-throughput service platforms (millions requests/day).
Deep understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, and operational patterns for five-nines availability.
Experience managing complex dependencies across distributed architectures.
Strong CS fundamentals: distributed systems, concurrency, caching, data consistency, performance optimization.
Experience building and scaling large-scale, cloud-native backend services (AWS or equivalent).
Proficiency with observability: metrics, distributed tracing, alerting, and SLO/SLA management at scale.
Experience productionizing services for multiple internal/external platform consumers.
Demonstrated success building and scaling engineering teams (recruiting, onboarding, retaining senior/staff engineers).
Experience with Agile/Scrum and iterative delivery on long-horizon infrastructure projects.
Ability to balance engineering excellence with operational pragmatism.
Communicates clearly and consisten