ThoughtSpot - Platform Engineering Manager - Cloud Platform

Description :

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.