Principal Software Engineer
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on May 1, 2026
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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