Principal Engineer

About the Role :

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to shape the architecture of ThoughtSpot’s cloud-native, distributed platform and scale it to support our ambitious product vision. You will bring deep systems thinking, architectural expertise, and pragmatic problem-solving to help evolve our platform across reliability, scalability, developer productivity, and security.

This is a strategic, high-impact engineering role where you will :

Partner with engineering, product, and business leaders to align architecture with long-term goals.

Mentor and guide teams on best practices and drive org-wide architectural initiatives.

Lead efforts to simplify systems, scale core platform services, and enhance reliability.

What you'll do :

Define and drive platform and product architecture aligned to our business and product vision.

Lead org-wide engineering initiatives focused on velocity, reliability, observability, and simplification.

Architect for scale, optimise for high availability, cost efficiency, and platform resilience.

Drive platform capabilities that accelerate product teams : authN / authZ, config frameworks, data privacy, multi-tenancy, CI / CD improvements.

Champion best practices such as architectural reviews, chaos engineering, canary deployments.

Deep dive into complex cross-team challenges and guide technical execution.

Mentor engineers, identify architectural debt, and promote structured decision-making frameworks.

Actively collaborate with leadership on technical strategy, product roadmaps, and platform direction.

Foster a culture of operational excellence through automation, observability, and continuous improvement.

What you bring :

15–20 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems in high-growth product environments.

Proven architectural leadership in SaaS platforms, cloud-native stacks, large-scale microservices.

Demonstrated experience driving engineering initiatives : reliability, uptime, security, simplification.

Expertise in platform engineering patterns : chaos engineering, canary rollouts, internal developer platforms.

Strong system & API design, platform reliability, security & privacy principles.

Hands-on mindset with ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels.

Excellent communication & stakeholder influence across product & engineering orgs.