# Principal Software Engineer - Observability & Telemetry Data at Smartsheet

- Company: Smartsheet
- What the company does: Backed by Insight.
- Company website: http://www.smartsheet.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Bellevue, WA, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-16
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/smartsheet/jobs/8172240
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/smartsheet-principal-software-engineer-observability-and-telemetry-data/

## About the role

As a Principal Software Engineer (Observability & Telemetry Data) , you will set the technical direction for how Smartsheet collects, models, stores, and derives value from telemetry data. This is an architect role: you will define the telemetry data platform and the standards that govern it, carry that architecture across engineering org boundaries, partner with our Data and AI Platform teams on Databricks and MLflow integration, and act as the company's definitive technical voice on observability.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, data platforms, or observability infrastructure, including time at Principal or Staff level
- Databricks Depth: Practical experience with the Databricks platform (jobs, clusters, Unity Catalog, Delta) and with MLflow for model and agent telemetry
- OpenTelemetry Depth: Practical experience with OTel collectors, semantic conventions, context propagation, and sampling strategy, including tail-based sampling
- Pipeline Engineering: Experience with high-volume log and telemetry pipelines, including FluentBit or Fluentd, streaming transport such as Kinesis or Kafka, and search backend index and mapping design
- Advanced AWS & Kubernetes Expertise: EKS, ECS Fargate, EC2, Lambda, and CloudWatch in production
- 10+ years of programming experience with modern languages such as Go, Java, Python, or Scala, and strong SQL

Tags: Engineering - Developers