ThoughtSpot - Principal Engineer - Distributed Systems

Role : Principal Engineer

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 :

- 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.

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.