Senior Backend Engineer — AI-Driven Infra & Scale

Engg; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Vision coverage

Dental coverage

401k match

Monthly stipend

Time away PTO

Life & disability insurance

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Smartsheet is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to design and build scalable backend services, and to contribute to core infrastructure and large-scale databases. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers in a mob programming setting, ensuring high-quality software through TDD and collective code ownership.

You will also mentor peers and focus on reliability, performance, and AI-enabled tooling while participating in on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience with backend systems.
• Experience with cloud technologies and IaC.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and databases.

Responsibilities

• Build Next-Generation Backend Services for scalable applications.
• Contribute to Core Infrastructure and database reliability.
• Collaborate via mob programming and participate in code reviews.
• Apply TDD to ensure resilient foundational systems.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Mob programming

Test-driven development (TDD)

Communication

AI tools usage

US work eligibility

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

MySQL

Temporal

GitLab-CI

Go

Job description

Smartsheet is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to design and build scalable backend services, and to contribute to core infrastructure and large-scale databases. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers in a mob programming setting, ensuring high-quality software through TDD and collective code ownership.

You will also mentor peers and focus on reliability, performance, and AI-enabled tooling while participating in on-call rotations.