Senior Manager, Engineering
Mode Analytics
About the role:
ThoughtSpot is seeking a DevOps Engineering Manager based in Hyderabad to lead and grow a DevOps team that powers our CI/CD platforms, developer productivity tooling, and infrastructure. This is a hands-on engineering management role, ideal for someone with approximately 14 years of industry experience, including the last 2+ years managing engineers.
You will balance people leadership with deep technical involvement owning build systems, release pipelines, cloud and hybrid infrastructure, and day-to-day operational excellence that enables ThoughtSpot’s high-scale SaaS platform.
What you will do:
Team Leadership & Execution
Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps engineers.
Set clear goals, execution plans, and quality bars for the team.
Foster a culture of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement.
CI/CD & Build Systems
Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines using Bazel and Jenkins.
Improve build performance, reliability, and scalability across large codebases.
Partner with application teams to standardise build and release best practices.
Artifact & Dependency Management
Manage enterprise-scale artifact repositories using JFrog Artifactory.
Define standards for versioning, promotion, retention, and supply-chain security.
Multi-Language Platform Support
Support build and release workflows for Java (Gradle), Go, C++, and Python.
Work closely with engineering teams to optimise language-specific tooling and workflows.
Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure
Operate and improve DevOps practices across AWS and GCP environments.
Support DevOps and infrastructure operations for internal/on‑prem data centres.
Enable Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, observability, and cost optimisation.
Reliability, Security & Operations
Drive operational excellence through automation, monitoring, and alerting.
Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and preventive improvements.
Ensure CI/CD and infrastructure platforms meet security and compliance requirements.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
Work closely with application engineering, security, IT, and customer-facing teams.
Actively participate in design and architecture reviews, highlighting risks and improvement areas.
What you will bring:
~14 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, build & release, or infrastructure roles.
~2+ years of experience in people management or technical team leadership.
Strong hands-on experience debugging CI/CD failures, infrastructure issues, and production incidents.
Deep expertise with Bazel and large-scale build systems.
Strong hands-on experience with Jenkins.
Experience with JFrog Artifactory and artifact lifecycle management.
Proven experience supporting Java (Gradle), Go, C++, and Python build systems.
Solid experience operating production systems on AWS and/or GCP.
Experience with internal/on‑prem data centre infrastructure and hybrid cloud environments.
Strong understanding of CI/CD best practices, DevOps principles, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
Who you are:
Technically Hands-On – You enjoy diving deep into build systems, pipelines, and infrastructure, and you are comfortable troubleshooting complex issues.
People-Focused Leader – You care deeply about coaching, mentoring, and growing engineers while holding a high bar for execution and quality.
Problem Solver – You bring strong systems thinking and remain calm and effective when handling operational and reliability challenges.
Platform Mindset – You understand that great developer platforms and reliable infrastructure are force multipliers for engineering velocity.
Customer Minded – You recognise that reliable builds, releases, and infrastructure directly impact customer trust and success.
Hybrid Work at ThoughtSpot: This office-assigned role is available as a hybrid position. Spotters assigned to an office are encouraged to experience the energy of their local office with an in-office requirement of at least three days per week. This approach balances the benefits of in-person collaboration and peer learning with the flexibility needed by individuals and teams.
Hybrid Work at ThoughtSpot
This office-assigned role is available as a hybrid position.
Spotters assigned to an office are encouraged to experience the energy of their local office with an in-office requirement of at least three days per week. This approach balances the benefits of in-person collaboration and peer learning with the flexibility needed by individuals and teams.
What makes ThoughtSpot a great place to work?
ThoughtSpot is the experience layer of the modern data stack, leading the industry with our AI-powered analytics and natural language search. We hire people with unique identities, backgrounds, and perspectives—this balance-for-the-better philosophy is key to our success. When paired with our culture of Selfless Excellence and our drive for continuous improvement (2% done), ThoughtSpot cultivates a respectful culture that pushes norms to create world-class products. If you’re excited by the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the business and make your mark on a truly innovative company, we invite you to read more about our mission, and apply to the role that’s right for you.
ThoughtSpot for All
Building a diverse and inclusive team isn't just the right thing to do for our people, it's the right thing to do for our business. We know we can’t solve complex data problems with a single perspective. It takes many voices, experiences, and areas of expertise to deliver the innovative solutions our customers need. At ThoughtSpot, we continually celebrate the diverse communities that individuals cultivate to empower every Spotter to bring their whole authentic self to work. We’re committed to being real and continuously learning when it comes to equality, equity, and creating space for underrepresented groups to thrive. Research shows that in order to apply for a job, women feel they need to meet 100% of the criteria while men usually apply after meeting 60%. Regardless of how you identify, if you believe you can do the job and are a good match, we encourage you to apply.