Tech Lead Manager

ThoughtSpot; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

ThoughtSpot in Bengaluru is seeking an Engineering Leader - AgentSpot to grow a high‑performing team building ThoughtSpot's agentic AI platform. You will guide architecture, delivery, and scale for multi-tenant agents, memory, and workflows, partnering with product and security to ensure reliability at scale.

This hands‑on leadership role requires mentoring, setting technical strategy, and delivering with velocity while maintaining engineering excellence and strong customer focus in a

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of software development experience.
• 3+ years of leading teams.
• Experience with SaaS platforms and distributed systems.
• Hands-on with LLM-powered or agentic AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor engineers to grow their careers.
• Ensure quality and stability with hands-on reviews and debugging.
• Build a culture of operational excellence including observability and security.
• Architect, design, and deploy high-performance, scalable systems.
• Lead cross-team collaboration to define KPI and end-to-end delivery.

Skills

Leadership

LLM AI systems

SaaS platforms

Distributed systems

Team growth & hiring

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Job Summary

We are looking for an Engineering Leader - AgentSpot to lead and grow the team based out of Bangalore. Come join a team of world-class engineers building AgentSpot, ThoughtSpot's agentic AI platform. This team is responsible for building a multi-tenant platform where business users create, run, and share AI agents and multi-step workflows that reason over enterprise data and take action on their behalf. This includes the agent-authoring and conversational experience, an LLM-powered agent runtime built on managed agent-execution and code-execution sandboxes, a secure tool and connector plane that lets agents act on enterprise systems, agent memory and knowledge bases, workflow orchestration, and the observability, evaluation and guardrail infrastructure that keeps agentic systems safe, reliable and strictly tenant-isolated at scale.

In this role, you will be a hands‑on technical leader responsible to manage a team that designs, builds and scales to help millions of business-people make smarter decisions.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor engineers to be more effective at their work and grow their careers.
• Drive the quality and stability of the product by getting hands‑on as required with code, design and test plan reviews, and debugging distributed and agentic systems issues.
• Build a culture of operational excellence with a focus on observability, evaluations, performance, scalability, cloud cost and security.
• Architect, design, develop and operationalize high performance, scalable, resilient and secure systems.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders across product and engineering teams, to establish KPI for different services and own end-to-end delivery and lifecycle management.
• Identify and help implement the most appropriate technologies, protocols and frameworks leading to efficient solutions.
• Defining strategy and technical roadmap for continuously improving release and deployment velocity, scale, performance and reliability of ThoughtSpot services
• Provide technical leadership, and lead initiatives across global teams.
• Recruit, inspire, and build world-class teams. Develop and grow leaders to continue pushing the boundaries of engineering excellence and execution for on-time delivery of projects with top quality
• Help evolve a culture of selfless-excellence in which each person does the best work of their lives and amplifies everyone around.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related fields, with 10+ years of experience in software development, 3+ years of experience in leading teams.
• Hands‑on experience with, or strong curiosity for, LLM-powered and agentic AI systems, agent frameworks, and the realities of running non‑deterministic AI safely and cost‑effectively in production.
• Prior expertise in building SaaS platforms and applications.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development.
• Experience in architecting secure, highly available, and performant systems
• Experience in one or more programming languages such as Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, or Java.
• Brings in a high level of self‑motivation to solve complex problems and challenges.
• You have experience in hiring, managing, and growing teams.
• You love building and leading exceptional teams in a fast‑paced, and entrepreneurial environment. You have a strong bias for action and being resourceful.
• You are obsessed with customer‑experience and uncompromising engineering standards.

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.