DevOps Engineer II at Smartsheet - Remote Bulgaria

This role is explicitly remote from Bulgaria
, meaning you must be legally eligible to work in Bulgaria on an ongoing basis. This is not a location-flexible, nomad-friendly posting — Smartsheet requires a fixed country of residence and likely structures payroll, taxes, and reporting around Bulgarian employment law.

Timezone considerations: Bulgaria operates on EET/EEST (UTC+2/UTC+3). While the job doesn't specify core hours, participation in an on-call rotation strongly implies you need to be consistently reachable in a compatible timezone — likely Eastern European or nearby. Traveling to significantly different timezones (e.g., Southeast Asia or the Americas) for extended periods would conflict with on-call responsibilities.

Visa and legal note: The posting explicitly states you must be "legally eligible to work in Bulgaria on an ongoing basis." This rules out tourist-visa arrangements. Digital nomad visas in nearby countries (e.g., Greece, Croatia) would not satisfy this requirement unless you also maintain Bulgarian work eligibility.

• Sofia cost of living: Bulgaria has a low cost of living, so a competitive local tech salary can go far domestically.
• Travel within Europe: EU freedom of movement makes short leisure trips easy, but extended remote work abroad may violate employment terms.

In summary: this role suits someone based in Bulgaria who wants remote flexibility within their home country, not a nomadic lifestyle across borders.

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.

We are seeking a Dev Ops Engineer II to join the Edge and Developer Experience team
. Our team collaboratively operates Smartsheet's high-performance edge proxy platform and drives the adoption of internal engineering tooling. The edge proxy serves as the entry point for all traffic across Smartsheet's commercial and FedRAMP-authorized US Government environments. The team supports the lifecycle of this platform: from maintaining proxy configurations, to provisioning the multi-region AWS EKS infrastructure it runs on, to assisting with observability.

Beyond the edge layer, the team also drives the integration of internal developer tooling — from a developer portal (IDP) to standardized CI/CD pipelines — that improves the engineering experience and velocity across the company.

You will work remotely from Bulgaria and report to one of our engineering leaders in Bulgaria.

• Contribute to the edge proxy platform:
  Assist in maintaining, upgrading, and extending a high-performance reverse proxy. This includes writing Go and Python automation, managing container images on hardened Linux bases, and working with CDN and traffic management capabilities.
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure as code:
  Implement Terraform/Terragrunt modules and live environment configurations for EKS clusters, load balancers, IAM roles, and supporting AWS services.
• Operate Kubernetes clusters:
  Assist in managing multi-region EKS deployments via Git Ops workflows (e.g., FluxCD, ArgoCD) and Helm charts.
• Support CI/CD pipelines:
  Help design, maintain, and improve shared Git Lab CI/CD pipeline templates used across team repositories, embedding Dev Sec Ops  guardrails.
• Automate operational toil:
  Build tooling for tasks such as container image patching, EKS AMI rotation, and automated…