Principal Software Engineer, Core Experiences (Remote Eligible)

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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. Core Experiences owns the platform and front end behind Smartsheet's most used work surfaces. These are the sheets, reports, and dashboards millions of people open every day to plan, track, and run their work. Underneath them are petabytes of customer work data, one of the largest and most valuable datasets at the company. As AI agents join human teams, that data has to serve two very different users. People expect an instant, real-time collaborative experience. Agents read, write, and analyze at machine scale. Meeting both means rethinking how sheet data is stored, served, and moved between our operational systems and a world-class lakehouse platform. We hold that work to the highest standards of performance, reliability, and correctness. As a Principal Software Engineer on Core Views, you will set the technical direction for systems at the heart of Smartsheet. This is a hands-on architect role. You will spot the company's largest technical opportunities before they are obvious, prove them out with prototypes, and build alignment across engineering organizations, including on roadmaps you do not own. You will turn multi-quarter efforts into phased plans with clear milestones and candid risk reporting, then deliver them. You will make the hard trade-offs between latency, consistency, and cost. You will write the architecture decisions and standards other teams build on, and raise the technical bar for engineers across the company. Your first major initiative will reshape how sheet data moves between our transactional stores and our data platform. What comes after is yours to help define. You will report to our Sr. Director of Engineering located in our Bellevue, WA office, or you may work remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer. You Will: • Architect the Sheet Data Platform: Own the end-to-end design for how sheet data is stored, tiered, and served across our transactional databases and our lakehouse platform. That includes data lifecycle and retention strategy, schema evolution, asynchronous access patterns, and consistency guarantees that users and agents can rely on. • Design for People and Agents at Scale: Shape the services and APIs that serve sheet data to a real-time collaborative experience used by millions and to AI agents that read, write, and analyze at machine scale. Make the hard trade-offs between latency, consistency, and cost, and document them so others can build on them. • See Around Corners: Identify the largest technical opportunities and risks across Core Views and the platforms it depends on before they become obvious. Build the prototypes that prove them out and turn them into initiatives leadership will invest in. • Lead High-Stakes Migrations: Plan and execute changes to petabyte-scale production data with zero customer impact. That means phased cutovers, backfill and reconciliation, verification at scale, and a rollback path for every step. • Own Delivery End to End: Scope multi-quarter efforts into phased plans with clear milestones, track progress across teams, raise risks early and candidly, and ship on time. • Carry Architecture Across Org Boundaries: Partner with Product, Data Platform, AI Platform, and Infrastructure to align on direction. Influence roadmaps you do not own, and represent Core Views in company-

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