Engineering Manager at Smartsheet - Lead & Grow Teams in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
This is a senior engineering leadership role at a publicly listed, $10bn-market-cap SaaS company with a rapidly growing Bulgarian engineering hub. Joining at this stage — only months after Smartsheet's Bulgaria expansion began — puts you in a genuine greenfield leadership position with outsized influence.
Career development signals:
- Reporting directly to an Engineering Director offers clear visibility to senior leadership and a transparent progression path toward Director-level roles.
- Skills built here — distributed systems, cloud-scale product delivery, cross-functional collaboration with PM and UX — are among the highest-demand competencies in the industry.
- Managing a growing team in a newly established office means you'll shape culture and process from the ground up, a rare opportunity at a company of this scale.
Compensation: No salary figures are disclosed, but Engineering Manager salaries at comparable US-listed SaaS companies in Eastern Europe typically range from €60,000–€100,000+ annually, with performance incentives on top. This compares favorably to local market rates in Bulgaria.
Green flags: 20-year company with proven product-market fit, AI-integration roadmap signals investment in future relevance, inclusive hiring policy, and genuine team-building mandate.
Watch for: The role spans both people management and technical oversight, which is demanding. Candidates should clarify team size, product scope, and on-call expectations before accepting.
Headquarters: Remote, Bulgaria
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.
Smartsheet is a tech company with a human story to tell. We're here to empower teams to manage projects, automate workflows, and rapidly build new secure solutions, using simple no-code tools. We're revolutionaries – so for us, changing the way the world works is all in a day's work.
As a global leader in Intelligent Work Management with a market cap of $10bn, we've continued to scale our engineering presence internationally. Since expanding into Bulgaria in October 2024, we've grown to a team of 75+ engineers. As we continue expanding into Bulgaria and building our operation, we're searching for a talented and motivated Engineering Manager. Our business is built on finding exceptional talent and empowering them to build and improve our service offerings.
You will work remotely from Bulgaria and will be reporting to an Engineering Director.
You Will:
- Manage a team of software engineers to deliver great products to our customers
- Oversee the development and success of one or more products
- Lead, coach, and inspire your team to achieve quality software
- Collaborate with partners across the company, including product management, UX, and customer teams
- Establish lean engineering processes that use collaboration and rapid iteration to build the right product for the right problems
- Hire and grow your team by promoting engineering excellence and career development
You Have:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years managing software engineering teams
- Deep software development skills in at least one systems development language, such as Java, Go, C++, or Python
- Experience with modern technology stacks with a passion for building scalable, highly available customer-facing cloud applications
- Experience in a technology that you're personally excited about, such as distributed systems, systems automation, and cloud technologies
- A drive to dive in, learn new things, and build outstanding products
- Legal eligibility to work in Bulgaria on an ongoing basis
- Proficiency in English (required)
Smartsheet provides a competitive base salary range for roles that may be hired in different geographic areas we are licensed to operate our business from. Actual compensation is determined by several factors including, but not limited to, level of professional, educational experience, skills, and specific candidate location. In addition, this role will be eligible for a market competitive incentive opportunity.
Get to Know Us:
At Smartsheet, your ideas are heard, your potential is supported, and your contributions have real impact. You'll have the freedom to explore, push boundaries, and grow beyond your role. We welcome diverse perspectives and nontraditional paths—because we know that impact comes from individuals who care deeply and challenge thoughtfully. When you're doing work that stretches you, excites you, and connects you to something bigger, that's magic at work. Let's build what's next, together.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Smartsheet is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment with the best employees. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants in accordance with applicable laws in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Costa Rica, Japan, Bulgaria, India, and Singapore. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
If there are preparations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/smartsheet-manager-engineering-remote-eligible-in-bulgaria
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