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Thomson Reuters · 3 weeks ago

Staff Platform Engineer - Materia AI

United States of America, Eagan, Minnesota

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$99K/yr - $185K/yr

8+ years exp

Thomson Reuters is a global leader in providing trusted content and technology for professionals across various sectors. They are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to build and evolve cloud-native platforms that support AI-driven systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions.

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Responsibilities

Innovate with Startup Speed and Enterprise Scale: Be part of a team that maintains the innovation velocity of a startup while leveraging the operational maturity of a global enterprise. You'll work with top AI and software development experts, building intelligent and scalable systems for accounting professionals. This role is for the CoCounsel for Tax and Accounting team, evolved from the acquisition of Materia, now integrating best-in-class enterprise practices with rapid innovation cycles

Deliver AI-Driven Systems: Launch backend services into production that power generative AI agents and orchestration systems. This role requires both creativity and rigor to ensure our AI-driven solutions are secure, performant, reliable, and adaptable to real-world use cases

Collaborate Across Functions: Work closely with AI/ML engineers, frontend developers, product managers, and SREs to build robust services and developer experiences. Help to build out AI native products for tax, accounting, and audit professionals

Developer Enablement: Build and maintain "golden path" reference implementations for automated build, test, and deploy workflows that development teams can adopt and customize

Design, implement, and manage reference CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Playwright, and Snyk

Develop Go command-line tools and services that streamline and empower developer workflows, from local development to production deployment

Establish, measure, and continuously improve DORA metrics, for example deployment frequency, change failure rate to optimize the velocity and quality of product delivery

Production Engineering: Lead the design and implementation of scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective production infrastructure using Kubernetes, Vercel, AWS, GCP, and AI platforms

Establish and enforce platform security best practices using multi-cloud strategies and open-source CNCF solutions, integrating with cloud-native security tools and Thomson Reuters internal infrastructure

Design and implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using tools such as DataDog and LLM observability tools

Collaboration and Leadership: Set up the necessary processes and documentation to support a team of 150+ product managers, researchers, and engineers. Align with product, development, and operations teams on business objectives

Foster a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement, exploring new AI technologies and methodologies

Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in cloud computing, platform engineering, and site reliability engineering, advocating for their adoption where appropriate

Qualification

Cloud-native expertiseProduction engineeringBackend developmentCI/CD pipelinesGo programmingAI-driven systemsConfiguration managementCuriosityCommunicationProblem solvingAdaptability

Required

8+ years of experience in backend development, platform engineering, production engineering, or site reliability engineering (SRE)

Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining a backend service and associated client interface for the benefit of other product and engineering staff developing products for customers

Deep experience troubleshooting low level DNS, TCP, IP, and TLS protocols

Creative problem solver who enjoys exploring new technologies

Extensive hands-on experience with cloud-native services, including deep proficiency with container registries, orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS), object storage (buckets), managed PostgreSQL, serverless functions, networking (VPCs/service mesh), identity and access management, infrastructure-as-code, secrets management, and pub/sub messaging systems

Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Eager to explore and understand emerging agentic software paradigms

Dedicated to building high-quality, reliable platform systems

Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, related field, or equivalent experience

Preferred

Fluent in Go, Python, Rust, or another systems level language

Experience with configuration management tools such as Terraform and CUE

Experience with AI-driven systems, agent-based architectures, LLM evaluation tools, and AI APIs from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic

Experience owning SOC 2 compliant systems end to end

Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, or search-based AI

Strong opinions on infrastructure design, end to end testing strategies, automation, middleware, and RPC/REST API designs patterns

Benefits

Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset.

Comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

Two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match.

Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave.

Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Company

Thomson Reuters

Glassdoor3.0

Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.

Founded in 2008

Toronto, Ontario, CAN

10001+ employees

http://thomsonreuters.com

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