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About the Role

The AI Enabled Software Engineering (AIESE) team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and deliver a fully managed, highly scalable, and reliable control plane that brings a search system to life and manages its full lifecycle. This role involves automating the provisioning of Kubernetes, Kafka, ingestion pipelines, and the data plane, with sovereignty and observability built in. Your work will directly impact how quickly and safely teams across Thomson Reuters can create, change, and operate search.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and own the control plane that creates, configures, upgrades, promotes, and retires search systems on demand.
Own automated provisioning of Kubernetes workloads, Kafka messaging, ingestion pipelines, and the data plane for query and ingest.
Provide lifecycle workflows for schema changes, reingest, index switch, and rollback.
Build sovereignty into the platform, including tenant data isolation, enterprise identity and role-based access.
Design the configuration data model and persistence layer for system definitions, component registries, index lifecycle state, and audit history.
Set the platform's interface standards, including versioned, backward-compatible contracts and clear documentation.
Own the infrastructure behind every search index (Vespa and OpenSearch), including provisioning, capacity planning, health, backup and restore, and the on-call path.
Set capacity budgets and limits for reindexing and backfills.
Make observability a first-class capability and own platform SLOs for availability, query latency, ingestion throughput, and document freshness.
Own the platform's cloud infrastructure as code across environments and the CI/CD pipeline.
Build security into the platform from the start, including least-privilege access, secrets management, encryption, and audit logging.
Own cost and performance planning as tenants, content, and query traffic grow.
Operate what you build, including on-call, incident response, and post-mortems.
Set architectural principles and design patterns for the control plane and infrastructure.
Lead cross-team projects, set priorities, and advise leadership on complex infrastructure and security decisions.
Partner with client teams to understand their experience adopting the platform and feed learnings into the roadmap.
Mentor Senior and mid-level engineers and help the team use AI-assisted development effectively.

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience with progression to staff-level scope, including ownership of a functional area and leadership of cross-functional projects.
A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Experience designing, building, and operating production platform or infrastructure services at scale, with strong distributed systems fundamentals, in a language such as Go, Java, Python, or an equivalent.
Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred), including Kubernetes or another container orchestrator and infrastructure as code.
Production experience operating a search engine such as Vespa, OpenSearch, or Elasticsearch, including capacity planning and index lifecycle.
Operational rigor: SLO definition, observability, on-call leadership, and learning from incidents.
Fluency with AI-assisted development tools.

Skills

Go
Java
Python
AWS
Kubernetes
Vespa
OpenSearch
Elasticsearch
Kafka

Location

New York City
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Irvine, CA
McLean, VA
Washington, DC
Ontario, Canada

Work Type

Hybrid Work Model
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year

Experience Level

Staff-level scope

Education Level

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Salary/Compensations

New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC: $136,000 USD - $253,000 USD
Other US locations: $118,400 USD - $219,800 USD
Ontario, Canada: $140,600 CAD - $190,600 CAD

Benefits

Flexible vacation
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Access to the Headspace app
Retirement savings
Tuition reimbursement
Employee incentive programs
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
Competitive 401k plan with company match
Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
Paid holidays
Parental leave
Sabbatical leave
Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance
Optional life and AD&D insurance
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
Fitness reimbursement
Access to Employee Assistance Program
Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit
Access to 529 Plan
Commuter benefits
Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan

About the Company

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions.
We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media.
Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency.
Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments.
At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them.
Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Equal Opportunity

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals.
To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law.
Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.