Staff Platform Engineer - Materia AI

About The Role

Are you excited about building cloud-native platforms that power Agentic workloads? Join a dynamic and highly skilled team at Thomson Reuters, where we combine the agility and innovation of a startup with the stability and resources of a global leader.

As a Platform Engineer, you will contribute to leading the design, development, and evolution of our next-generation cloud-native platforms. You will contribute to technical strategy, champion engineering excellence, and build highly scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure that empowers our product development teams.

You will be a hands-on technical leader, influencing architectural decisions, mentoring team members, and championing best practices in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Key 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.
• Deliver AI-Driven Systems: Launch backend services into production that power generative AI agents and orchestration systems.
• Collaborate Across Functions: Work closely with AI/ML engineers, frontend developers, product managers, and SREs to build robust services and developer experiences.
• Developer Enablement: Build and maintain "golden path" reference implementations for automated build, test, and deploy workflows.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Design, implement, and manage reference CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Playwright, and Snyk.
• Tooling: Develop Go command-line tools and services that streamline and empower developer workflows.
• Metrics: Establish, measure, and continuously improve DORA metrics 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.
• Security: Establish and enforce platform security best practices using multi-cloud strategies and open-source CNCF solutions.
• Observability: Design and implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using tools such as DataDog and LLM observability tools.
• Leadership: Set up the necessary processes and documentation to support a team of 150+ product managers, researchers, and engineers.

About You

You're a fit for this role if your background includes:

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in backend development, platform engineering, production engineering, or site reliability engineering (SRE).
• Software Development: Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining a backend service and associated client interface.
• Problem Solving: Deep experience troubleshooting low level DNS, TCP, IP, and TLS protocols.
• Cloud-Native Expertise: Extensive hands-on experience with container registries, orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS), object storage, managed PostgreSQL, serverless functions, networking, identity and access management, infrastructure-as-code, and secrets management.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• 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 (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic).
• Experience owning SOC 2 compliant systems end to end.
• Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, or search-based AI.

What's in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: Flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office).
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, including "work from anywhere" for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Career Development: Culture of continuous learning and skill development.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: Comprehensive benefit plans, flexible vacation, mental health days, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, and more.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging.
• Social Impact: Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.

Compensation

• US Base Compensation Range: $102,200 USD - $189,800 USD.
• Ontario, Canada Base Compensation Range: $118,200 CAD - $168,200 CAD.
• Base pay is positioned based on knowledge, skills, and experience. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus.

About Us

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.

Thomson Reuters is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.