Senior Manager, Engineering - Enterprise Audit

As a global leader in Collaborative Work Management and with a market cap of $10bn, we’re scaling our EMEA engineering presence rapidly and are on a strong growth trajectory to 80+ engineers in 2026.

You will report to an Engineering Director

You Will:

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team responsible for Enterprise Audit capabilities (e.g., audit trail, admin activity tracking, audit log APIs/exports, retention policies, and audit experiences).
• Define and drive the Enterprise Audit roadmap in partnership with Product, Security, Compliance, and other engineering teams—balancing customer value, compliance requirements, and platform sustainability.
• Own architecture and delivery of highly reliable, secure, and scalable audit systems, including event capture, processing, storage, and query/reporting at enterprise scale.
• Build audit as a platform capability with strong guarantees (integrity, durability, tamper resistance, and clear schemas), enabling other teams to emit and consume auditable events consistently.
• Embed security and privacy into everything (least privilege, encryption, defensible access patterns, data minimization, and clear retention/deletion behaviors).
• Establish operational excellence: SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and on-call health for audit services.
• Coach and develop engineers and leads, creating a strong culture of ownership, high-quality delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate clearly and proactively with stakeholders and leadership on progress, tradeoffs, risks, and outcomes.
  
  

What You Will Achieve in Your First 360 Days

• First 30 days: Understand current audit capabilities, event sources, data flows, and customer requirements; build strong relationships with Security/Compliance and key partner teams.
• 60–90 days: Clarify the technical and product roadmap, improve team execution, and introduce/strengthen best practices for audit event quality, reliability, and operational readiness.
• 6 months: Deliver meaningful enterprise audit improvements (e.g., expanded coverage of auditable actions, improved exportability, stronger retention controls, or better performance at scale) with measurable customer and operational impact.
• 360 days: Establish a durable Enterprise Audit foundation—scalable, secure, and extensible—positioning Smartsheet as a trusted platform for regulated and security-conscious enterprises.
  
  

You Have

• 10+ years in software development, including experience building distributed systems and production services at scale.
• 5+ years managing engineering teams with a strong track record of coaching, delivery, and talent development.
• Experience designing systems that emphasize data integrity, traceability, and reliability (audit/logging, compliance platforms, security telemetry, billing/ledger-like systems, etc.).
• Strong understanding of security fundamentals (authN/authZ, RBAC, encryption, secure-by-design practices) and how they apply to enterprise audit requirements.
• Proven ability to partner cross-functionally, align priorities, and deliver through ambiguity.
• Strong Agile delivery habits and a pragmatic approach to balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Legally eligible to work in Bulgaria on an ongoing basis.
• Fluency in English is required.

Why Should You Join Us?

• Lead a mission-critical capability that directly supports Enterprise trust, governance, and compliance.
• Build foundational platform services used across product areas and relied on by our largest customers.
• Influence technical direction and team culture in a high-growth engineering organization.
• Work in a supportive, inclusive environment where your voice and leadership make a visible impact.