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Principal Engineer

ThoughtSpot • Bengaluru, India
23 days ago
Job description

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.
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