Senior Member of Technical Staff
About The Role
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Cloud Platform team and take ownership of the architecture and evolution of our multi-tenant SaaS platform. You will work at the intersection of backend engineering and cloud infrastructure, designing and building the systems that power our control plane and data plane at scale. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role. You will be a technical anchor for the team, driving architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and partnering with product and infrastructure leaders to shape the future of our cloud platform.
What You Will Do
- Architecture & Design
- Own end-to-end architecture for the cloud platform, spanning control plane and data plane
- Design multi-tenant systems with strong isolation, security, and resource governance
- Define platform abstractions that work across hybrid environments AWS, GCP, Azure, and on-premises
- Drive architectural reviews, RFCs, and ensure decisions are well-reasoned, documented, and scalable
- Control Plane Architect and build systems for tenant provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration
- Design cluster orchestration and management systems that operate reliably at scale
- Build APIs and automation that enable self-service for operators and tenants
- Ensure control plane is highly available, auditable, and observable
- Data Plane Design data path components for high-throughput, low-latency workloads
- Build and enforce isolation boundaries between tenants at the data layer
- Optimise for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency at scale
Engineering Excellence
- Set technical direction and coding standards for the platform team
- Identify and address systemic risks — reliability, scalability, security, and operability
- Partner with SRE and DevOps on observability, incident response, and capacity planning
Mandatory And Required Skills For All ThoughtSpot Roles
- Spotters are expected to demonstrate AI literacy and workflow integration to include to ability to:
- Comfortably and confidently integrate artificial intelligence into their daily workflow to increase productivity and quality.
- Hands-on experience to leverage AI tools (industry-leading LLMs) to increase productivity, automate routine tasks, and improve work quality.
- Speak to the experience of using AI for research, content creation, and document summarization while maintaining ownership of judgment and final decisions.
Good To Have
- Exposure to FinOps practices
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining observability platforms, centralised logging pipelines, metrics dashboards (Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent), distributed tracing infrastructure, and alert management systems that give engineering teams real-time visibility into platform health
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure or platform projects
Compensation & Benefits
In California, the estimated annual salary range for this role is $175K – $220K per year. Actual compensation may vary and will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, qualifications, experience, and location of the selected candidate. Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits.
Mandatory And Required Skills For All ThoughtSpot Roles
- Spotters are expected to demonstrate AI literacy and workflow integration to include to ability to:
- Comfortably and confidently integrate artificial intelligence into their daily workflow to increase productivity and quality.
- Hands-on experience to leverage AI tools (industry-leading LLMs) to increase productivity, automate routine tasks, and improve work quality.
- Speak to the experience of using AI for research, content creation, and document summarization while maintaining ownership of judgment and final decisions.
Training and resources
Training and resources are provided so every Spotter can confidently create with AI.
Hybrid Work at ThoughtSpot
Spotters are expected in-office 3 days per week to experience the energy of their local office. This approach balances the benefits of in-person collaboration and peer learning with the flexibility needed by individuals and teams.
About ThoughtSpot
The world’s most innovative companies turn to ThoughtSpot’s AI-Powered Analytics to put data in the hands of everyone, from the C-suite to the frontline. With simple, natural language search and AI, anyone can ask questions, discover insights, and act with confidence. Unlike legacy tools that sacrifice performance for complexity, ThoughtSpot is intuitively designed for every business user while being built to handle the most complex, large-scale data, wherever it resides. This unique combination of speed and simplicity is why enterprise leaders trust ThoughtSpot to transform decision-making into a truly data-driven culture.