Principal Engineer

Are you passionate about solving complex technical problems and finding innovative applications of AI and automation to drive operational excellence Do you excel at building architectures and frameworks that empower engineering teams Do you enjoy mentoring engineers to achieve higher levels of innovation and delivery

Join Thomson Reuters as a Principal Engineer and lead the reliability scalability and operational excellence of our Legal Thomson Reuters were revolutionizing legal work through innovative technology.

As Principal Engineer for AI & Automation youll partner with the Senior Manager AI & Automation to define and execute the technical vision for ensuring our legal products are robust performant and resilient at scale.

About the Role

As Principal Engineer AI & Automation you will:

• Lead cross-product initiatives that modernize software delivery pipelines through advanced automation and continuous verification

• Architect and implement observability frameworks (monitoring logging tracing) to proactively detect and resolve issues across distributed systems

• Establish a technical maturity model for continuous integration test automation deployment and observability across diverse legal products

• Design frameworks that leverage AI for change-risk analysis predictive failure detection and automated remediation

• Implement risk-based deployment governance frameworks using automation and AI-driven insights to determine production readiness and rollback triggers

• Mentor and guide a global team of site reliability engineers DevOps specialists and platform engineers

• Establish patterns for AI-driven tooling and automation to reduce toil enhance system resilience and boost productivity

• Exercise autonomy in decision-making and managing technical risk

• Partner with engineering product and service management leaders to align automation initiatives with business priorities

• Initiate and direct modernization efforts targeting high-volume legacy applications with significant manual operational footprints

• Design automation frameworks that provide SREs with advanced triage capabilities to decrease service restoration times

• Define and implement automation blueprints that embed quality security and compliance controls directly into CI/CD workflows

• Establish enterprise metrics that quantify automation coverage deployment lead time mean time to recovery and change failure rate

• Lead cross-functional efforts to standardize infrastructure-as-code test automation and continuous delivery patterns

• Identify opportunities where automation and AI can materially improve delivery speed quality and cost efficiency

About You

Youre a fit for the role of Principal Engineer AI & Automation if you have:

• 15 years of experience in software engineering site reliability engineering or DevOps roles

• Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures (AWS Azure or GCP) container orchestration (Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Terraform CloudFormation)

• Strong background in monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Datadog Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry)

• Experience with incident management service-level objectives (SLOs) and reliability-focused KPIs

• Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure including model deployment performance monitoring and scaling

• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python Bash Go or similar)

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence across engineering and operations teams

• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives and drive continuous improvement in fast-paced environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in the architecture and development of enterprise-grade frameworks and consumable APIs

• Advanced degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field

• Experience with chaos engineering load testing and performance tuning

• Demonstrated ability to design and implement risk-based controls for automated delivery pipelines and production operations

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Whats in it For You

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: 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. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrows challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow lead and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer 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.

• Culture: Globally recognized award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging flexibility work-life balance and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers Compete to Win Challenge (Y)our Thinking Act Fast / Learn Fast and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice truth and transparency. Together with the professionals and institutions we serve we help uphold the rule of law turn the wheels of commerce catch bad actors report the facts and provide trusted unbiased information to people all over the world.

In the United States Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health dental vision disability and life insurance programs as well as a competitive 401k plan with company addition Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation sick and safe paid time off paid holidays (including two company mental health days off) parental leave sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: 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.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations unless otherwise noted the base compensation range for this role is $154000 - $286000. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individuals knowledge skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

This job posting will close 12/13/2025.

About Us

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