# Senior Software Engineer I (Observability Platform) at Smartsheet

- Company: Smartsheet
- What the company does: Backed by Insight.
- Company website: http://www.smartsheet.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: -REMOTE, USA-
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/smartsheet/jobs/8230517
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/smartsheet-senior-software-engineer-i-observability-platform/

## About the role

Smartsheet’s Observability Engineering team owns how the company sees itself: the collection, modeling, storage, and analysis of metrics, logs, distributed traces, and events across a global, multi-region infrastructure. As a Senior Software Engineer I on this team, you will be hands-on-keyboard building that platform (instrumentation libraries, telemetry pipelines, SLO and alerting systems, dashboards as code), and you will be the engineer who connects it to everything around it.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years building and operating highly scalable, highly available distributed systems, platform services, or observability infrastructure
- 5+ years programming in Go, Python, Java/Kotlin, or TypeScript/Node.js, with the ability to move fluently between backend services and the operational tooling around them
- Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, or an internal developer platform (e.g., Backstage), with a product mindset toward internal users
- Practical OpenTelemetry experience: collectors, instrumentation (auto and manual), semantic conventions, and context propagation across service boundaries
- Experience building high-volume data or telemetry pipelines: log and metric shippers, streaming transport, transformation and enrichment, and search or time-series backends
- Strong REST API and integration engineering skills, including OAuth and other authentication patterns, webhooks, and event-driven architectures connecting third-party SaaS platforms

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