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Manager, Engineering (Remote Eligible in Bulgaria)

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Employment
Full Time
Experience
Director
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AI Summary

The role, at a glance.

Smartsheet is hiring an Engineering Manager to remotely lead software engineers based in Bulgaria. The manager will own delivery and success for one or more customer-facing products while partnering with product management, UX, and customer teams. Core responsibilities include coaching engineers, hiring and developing the team, and establishing lean processes that support rapid iteration and quality. Candidates need at least eight years of software engineering experience, three years of engineering management experience, and strong cloud or distributed-systems expertise. The role requires ongoing legal eligibility to work in Bulgaria and professional English proficiency.

Role DNA

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Job Complexity

5/5
EasyHard

Pace & Pressure

4/5
RelaxedFast-paced

Autonomy Level

4/5
GuidedFull ownership

Communication Load

5/5
IndependentCollaborative
AI insightThis is a senior people-management role requiring substantial prior engineering and management experience, as well as technical depth in scalable cloud systems. The manager must balance product delivery, technical quality, cross-functional alignment, hiring, and career development.

Salary analysis

Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles.

Estimated job median (per year)Market rate
$125,000
US market range (per year)$105k–$150k
AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. No employer salary amount was disclosed. The yearly cadence is inferred from the senior full-time Engineering Manager role; the figures are non-verified USD annual estimates for a comparable engineering-management market and are not employer-provided compensation.

Core skills

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Sample interview questions
How do you balance hands-on technical involvement with managing and coaching an engineering team?

I stay close enough to the architecture, risks, and delivery plan to ask useful questions and remove blockers, without becoming the decision bottleneck. I delegate technical ownership to senior engineers, use regular one-to-ones and technical reviews to provide context and coaching, and reserve my direct involvement for high-impact decisions or escalations.

Describe how you would improve delivery predictability for a team working on a cloud product.

I would first assess the team's workflow, dependency patterns, planning quality, and operational interruptions. I would then establish a lightweight cadence around clear outcomes, smaller deliverable increments, explicit ownership, risk tracking, and retrospective actions, while using delivery and quality signals to identify bottlenecks rather than measuring individuals.

How would you handle a disagreement between engineering and product management on scope or technical investment?

I would ensure both sides agree on the customer problem, desired outcome, constraints, and evidence behind their positions. I would make trade-offs visible, such as delivery speed, reliability, maintainability, and future opportunity cost, then facilitate a decision with accountable owners and a documented rationale.

What is your approach to developing engineers with different experience levels?

I tailor development plans to each person's strengths, aspirations, and current gaps. This includes setting measurable growth goals, pairing engineers with meaningful ownership opportunities, providing timely feedback, and creating regular opportunities to demonstrate increased scope and technical or leadership capability.

How do you maintain quality and availability while moving quickly in a distributed cloud environment?

I build quality into the delivery process through automated testing, code review, observability, incremental releases, and clear operational ownership. For critical services, I also prioritize reliability targets, incident learning, capacity planning, and deliberate investment in reducing recurring operational risk.

This analysis is generated from the job description. Salary estimates, role characteristics and sample answers are guidance, not employer-provided facts.
Opportunity details

About this role.

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 build 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:

  • You have 8+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years managing software engineering teams.
  • You have deep software development skills in at least one systems development language, such as Java, Go, C++, or Python.
  • You have experience with modern technology stacks with a passion for building scalable, highly available customer-facing cloud applications.
  • You have experience in a technology that you’re personally excited about, such as distributed systems, systems automation, and cloud technologies.
  • You like to dive in, learn new things, and want to build outstanding products.
  • Legally eligible to work in Bulgaria on an ongoing basis.
  • Proficiency in English is 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.

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