We are looking for a Principal Engineer to shape the architecture of ThoughtSpots 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 optimize 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'll Bring :
1520 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.Tech / M.Tech(ref : hirist.tech)