VP Engineering, Platform & Infrastructure

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Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, IND
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Information Technology
The Role
The VP of Engineering will lead platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, product integrations, and developer productivity, focusing on scalability and operational excellence while mentoring teams and defining long-term strategies.
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Our Mission:

Our mission is to multiply what matters:  growth, retention, and efficiency.  We envision a future where companies, teams and people reach their full potential.

Our People:

People are the heart and soul of 6sense. We serve with passion and purpose. We live by our Being 6sense values of Win as One Team, Stay Curious, Do The Right Thing, Own the Outcome, and Create Belonging.  Every 6sensor plays a part in defining the future of our industry-leading technology.  6sense is a place where difference-makers roll up their sleeves, take risks, act with integrity, and measure success by the value we create for our customers.  We want 6sense to be the best chapter of your career. 

About the Role

We are seeking a senior engineering leader to own and evolve the foundational Platform & Infrastructure powering our global product ecosystem. This leader will drive cloud architecture, distributed systems, and large-scale data platforms that enable scalability, reliability, and AI-first innovation.

This role combines deep technical platform ownership with broader regional engineering leadership. In addition to stewarding our infrastructure, you will accelerate product velocity, enable Generative AI capabilities at the platform layer, and ensure global scalability of our technology systems.

You will serve as the senior-most engineering leader in India, partnering closely with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to drive long-term technology strategy, leadership development, and execution excellence across the region.

What You’ll Own

  • End-to-end ownership of Platform & Infrastructure engineering (AWS, architecture, reliability, scalability)

  • Leadership of large-scale data platform operating at PB-scale and processing trillions of data points daily

  • Generative AI enablement at the platform layer to power AI-driven product innovation

  • Engineering excellence across distributed systems, SRE, DevOps, observability, and developer productivity

  • Regional engineering leadership across India

  • Executive alignment with SLT on long-term technology strategy

What You’ll Do

  • Lead global teams across platform engineering, infrastructure, cloud operations, integrations, and SRE

  • Define and execute long-term AWS cloud strategy focused on availability, security, performance, and cost optimization

  • Scale distributed systems architecture to support global growth and AI workloads

  • Improve developer velocity through internal platforms, tooling, and automation

  • Build and mentor senior engineering leaders; strengthen high-performance culture in India

  • Drive change leadership during periods of growth and transformation

  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Security, and Engineering to align technical priorities with business goals

Why This Role is Strategic

Platform is a core leverage point for accelerating product velocity, enabling AI innovation, powering data monetization, and driving global scalability.

This is a high-impact leadership role with regional influence, clear ownership of Platform & Infrastructure engineering, and strong executive visibility as a strategic SLT-level hire.

What We’re Looking For

  • 15+ years of engineering experience, including 7+ years in senior leadership roles

  • Proven leadership of large-scale Platform & Infrastructure organizations

  • Deep expertise in AWS, distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and SRE

  • Experience operating PB-scale data platforms

  • Exposure to AI/ML or Generative AI platform enablement

  • Track record of scaling engineering teams in high-growth SaaS environments

  • Strong executive presence with experience partnering at SLT or board level

  • Demonstrated ability to develop senior engineering leaders and build high-performance culture

  • Strong business acumen and long-range strategic thinking


Our Benefits: 

Full-time employees can take advantage of health coverage, paid parental leave, generous paid time-off and holidays, quarterly self-care days off, and stock options. We’ll make sure you have the equipment and support you need to work and connect with your teams, at home or in one of our offices. 

We have a growth mindset culture that is represented in all that we do, from onboarding through to numerous learning and development initiatives including access to our LinkedIn Learning platform. Employee well-being is also top of mind for us. We host quarterly wellness education sessions to encourage self care and personal growth. From wellness days to ERG-hosted events, we celebrate and energize all 6sense employees and their backgrounds. 

Equal Opportunity Employer: 

6sense is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected]. 

We are aware of recruiting impersonation attempts that are not affiliated with 6sense in any way. All email communications from 6sense will originate from the @6sense.com domain. We will not initially contact you via text message and will never request payments. If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official 6sense employee, reach out to jobs@6sense.com 

Top Skills

AWS
Cloud Operations
DevOps
Distributed Systems
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The Company
Bengaluru, Karnataka
520 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

The 6sense Account Engagement Platform helps revenue teams identify and close more opportunities by putting the power of AI, big data and machine learning behind every member of the B2B revenue team.

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