ThoughtSpot - Engineering Leader - Cloud Platform

What You'll Do :

Lead and Scale Platform Teams: Manage and grow high-performing engineering.

teams working on core control plane services and observability infrastructure.

Own the Cloud Control Plane: Architect and operate scalable control plane services, including service orchestration, feature flag systems, configuration propagation, tenancy-aware deployments, and health monitoring.

Build a World-Class Observability Stack: Own logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and visualization to support both developer productivity and system reliability.

Drive Operational Excellence: Establish SLOs, improve MTTR/MTTD, and embed.

resilience across the platform.

Partner Across the Org: Collaborate with SRE, Security, Application, and Product.

Engineering teams to ensure platform services meet evolving business needs.

Architect for Multi-Tenant SaaS: Enable secure and efficient scaling across tenants in AWS and GCP, with attention to cost, compliance, and observability.

Contribute Hands-On: Participate in architecture reviews, deep dive into production issues, and mentor engineers on best practices in system design and debugging.

What You Bring :

- 12+ years of engineering experience, with at least 5 years in platform/infrastructure leadership roles.

- Expertise in Kubernetes, service meshes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native architecture.

- Proven experience with control plane engineering, including service discovery, dynamic config, scaling orchestration, and policy enforcement.

- Deep understanding of observability tooling (e.g , Prometheus, Grafana,.

- OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Elastic, etc.

- Familiarity with distributed systems concepts like CAP theorem, consensus, and leader election.

- Experience operating multi-tenant systems in AWS and/or GCP environments.

- Hands-on experience with at least one major programming language (Go, Java, Python).

- Strong stakeholder management and the ability to influence architectural direction across orgs.

What makes ThoughtSpot a great place to work ?

ThoughtSpot is the experience layer of the modern data stack, leading the industry with our AI-powered analytics and natural language search.

We hire people with unique identities, backgrounds, and perspectives this balance-for-the-better philosophy is key to our success.

When paired with our culture of Selfless Excellence and our drive for continuous improvement (2% done), ThoughtSpot cultivates a respectful culture that pushes norms to create world-class products.

If youre excited by the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the business and make your mark on a truly innovative company, we invite you to read more about our mission, and apply to the role thats right for you.