Staff Engineer

Job Summary

The Core App Services team is the backbone of ThoughtSpot s Search AI engine. We build the application platform that powers authentication, authorization, metadata management, search infrastructure, and other foundational services across our global SaaS ecosystem.

As a Staff Engineer (Backend), you will play a key leadership role in solving some of our most complex engineering challenges. This is not a feature-focused development role; you will help define and build the scalable patterns and platforms that power services across ThoughtSpot. You will take ownership of critical backend systems and ensure they remain resilient, secure, and highly scalable as we continue to evolve our cloud-native architecture.

What Youll Do

• Design, build, and optimize mission-critical backend services and APIs that power metadata management, authentication, authorization, and core application workflows.
• Drive the architecture and development of foundational platform capabilities that support ThoughtSpot s Search AI ecosystem.
• Build and scale enterprise-grade features such as multi-tenancy, workload isolation, and high-scale platform services.
• Design solutions to support large-scale distributed systems while maintaining performance, reliability, and security.
• Own services throughout their lifecycle, from development and deployment to monitoring and production operations.
• Optimize systems for high throughput, low latency, efficient resource utilization, and high availability.
• Establish and promote best practices for observability, monitoring, tracing, and operational excellence.
• Proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues before they impact customers.
• Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to influence platform strategy and technical direction.
• Mentor team members and contribute to raising the engineering bar across the organization.

What You Bring

• 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale backend and distributed systems.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java (Spring Boot) or Go, with a strong understanding of JVM internals or Go concurrency patterns.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems concepts, including CAP theorem, consistency models, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Hands-on experience designing event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar messaging systems.
• Experience working with high-performance databases such as PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases, and caching technologies like Redis.
• Practical experience with modern infrastructure technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.
• Deep understanding of system design, performance optimization, and reliability engineering.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to operate effectively in complex production environments.
• Production-first mindset with a focus on observability, telemetry, tracing, and operational excellence.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.

In-Office at ThoughtSpot

Spotters are expected in-office 3+ days per week to be part of the energy of their local team. Momentum compounds when were in the room together with faster decisions, sharper problem-solving, and the kind of peer learning that doesnt happen over a screen. Being in-office is our default way of working, with flexibility available where its genuinely needed.

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