Smartsheet
About this role
Smartsheet is a work management SaaS platform with more than 10 million users, and this seat sits on its global Security Operations team. The framing in the posting is the interesting part: it treats security and reliability as the same engineering problem, blending site reliability engineering with modern security operations. You engineer and operate a production environment that has to be reliable, scalable and defensible around the clock. The question the posting opens with is a good filter for whether you will enjoy it: are you someone who engineers a solution rather than fixing the same thing repeatedly. The bar is 8 or more years in technology with at least 5 in a hands on senior role in SRE, DevOps or security engineering. Apply if you sit between infrastructure and security and do not want to pick a side.
Who this is for
Requirements as published:
- 8+ years of progressive experience in technology, with at least 5 years in a hands on senior role such as Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps or Security Engineering.
- Ability to design, build, maintain and improve secure, scalable and highly available infrastructure.
- Automation as the default approach rather than repeated manual fixes, which the posting calls out directly.
The actual day to day:
- Engineering secure and resilient infrastructure for a service that has to be available to customers 24 by 7.
- Maturing both the security and the reliability posture of the production environment by treating each as a software engineering problem.
- Working at the intersection of infrastructure, automation and security to build a platform that is resilient and secure by design.
Location and office reality:
- Bangalore, hybrid. The hybrid arrangement is stated in the job title itself. Specific office days are not published, so ask.
Honest fit guidance:
- This role wants both halves. An SRE with no security depth, or a security engineer who has never run production infrastructure, will find one side of the interview hard.
- The posting is written as a leadership role in the sense of technical maturity, not people management, so it stays on the individual contributor track.
- Smartsheet has a second, similar Bangalore role in this edition on the Corporate Systems side. That one is business systems focused. This one is product production infrastructure, and they are not interchangeable.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in technology, with at least 5 years in a hands on senior role such as Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps or Security Engineering.
- Ability to design, build, maintain and improve secure, scalable and highly available infrastructure.
- Automation as the default approach rather than repeated manual fixes, which the posting calls out directly.
The actual day to day:
- Engineering secure and resilient infrastructure for a service that has to be available to customers 24 by 7.
- Maturing both the security and the reliability posture of the production environment by treating each as a software engineering problem.
- Working at the intersection of infrastructure, automation and security to build a platform that is resilient and secure by design.
Location and office reality:
- Bangalore, hybrid. The hybrid arrangement is stated in the job title itself. Specific office days are not published, so ask.
Honest fit guidance:
- This role wants both halves. An SRE with no security depth, or a security engineer who has never run production infrastructure, will find one side of the interview hard.
- The posting is written as a leadership role in the sense of technical maturity, not people management, so it stays on the individual contributor track.
- Smartsheet has a second, similar Bangalore role in this edition on the Corporate Systems side. That one is business systems focused. This one is product production infrastructure, and they are not interchangeable.
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