Sr. Director of SRE
Mode Analytics
As we scale, ensuring the reliability, performance, and efficiency of our cloud-native, SaaS-first infrastructure is paramount. We’re seeking a Sr. Director of SRE to lead our SRE team, responsible for ensuring the availability, scalability, and operational excellence of our analytics platform across multi-cloud environments and Software customers.
- Define and execute the strategic vision and technical roadmap for SRE, driving reliability, scalability, and efficiency in ThoughtSpot’s cloud-native analytics platform.
- Lead and mentor a team of 50+ SREs, fostering a culture of automation, observability, and operational excellence.
- Own the availability, performance, and cost optimization of our data processing, indexing, and real-time analytics infrastructure.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to build self-healing, highly available distributed systems with a focus on cloud scalability (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Drive automation-first SRE practices, leveraging Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Kubernetes) and proactive monitoring to reduce toil.
- Ensure ThoughtSpot’s analytics platform maintains high availability and low-latency performance while handling complex AI/ML-driven workloads.
- Lead efforts around incident management, post-mortem analysis, and continuous reliability improvements.
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies in cloud computing, big data, and AI-driven analytics, integrating best practices into ThoughtSpot’s infrastructure.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related field.
- 10+ years of engineering leadership in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure, managing teams of 40+ engineers.
- 5+ years of experience in large-scale distributed systems.
- 4+ years of experience in automation & observability, building tooling to reduce operational complexity in managing cloud-scale services.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible).
- Hands-on experience with programming/scripting (Python, Go, Java, or Ruby) to automate operations and improve developer experience.
- Proven ability to hire, mentor, and develop top-tier SRE talent in a high-growth environment.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to drive technical alignment across engineering, product, and business teams.
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