Senior Platform Engineer-AI

Senior Platform Engineer- Materia AI
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.

About the Role:
In this opportunity as a Senior Platform Engineer- Materia AI you will:

• Innovate with Startup Speed and Enterprise Scale: Be part of a team thatmaintainsthe innovation velocity of a startup whileleveragingthe operational maturity of a global with top AI and software development experts building intelligent and scalable systems for accounting professionals. This role is for theCoCounselfor Tax and Accounting teamevolvedfrom the acquisition ofMateria 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 tobuild out AI native products for tax accounting and audit professionals.
• Developer Enablement: Build andmaintaingolden 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 andSnyk.
• 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 tooptimizethe velocity and quality of product delivery.
• Production Engineering: Implementation of scalable resilient secure and cost-effective production infrastructure using KubernetesVercel 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 asDataDogand LLM observability tools.
• Collaboration and Leadership: Set up the necessary processes and documentation to support a team of150product managers researchers and with product development and operations teams on businessobjectives.
• 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 whereappropriate.

About You:
Youre a fit for the role of Senior Platform Engineer- Materia AI if your background includes:

• Experience:5 years of experience in backend development platform engineering production engineering or site reliability engineering (SRE).
• Software Development:Experiencedeveloping deploying andmaintaininga backend serviceand associated client interfacefor the benefit of otherproduct and engineering staff developing products for customers.
• Problem Solving:Deep experience troubleshooting low level DNS TCP IP and TLS problemsolverwho enjoys exploringnew technologies.
• Cloud-Native Expertise:Extensive hands-on experience with cloud-native services including deepproficiencywith 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.
• Communication:Excellent communication skills capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Curiosity:Eager toexplore andunderstandemergingagenticsoftwareparadigms.
• Quality:Dedicated to building high-quality reliableplatformsystems.
• Adaptability:Comfortable working in a fast-paced evolving environment.
• Education:Bachelors degree in computer sciencecomputerengineeringrelatedfield orequivalentexperience
• Preferred Skills & Experience
• Fluent in Go Python Rust oranothersystems level language.
• Experience withconfigurationmanagementtools such asTerraform and CUE.
• Experience with AI-driven systems agent-based architectures LLMevaluationtools 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 designend to endtesting strategies automation middleware andRPC/RESTAPIdesignspatterns.

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Whats in it For You

• Hybrid Work Model: Weve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• 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. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City San Francisco Los Angeles and/or Irvine CA; McLean VA; Washington DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $109000 USD - $203000 USD. For any eligible US locations unless otherwise noted the base compensation range for this role is $94900 USD - $176300 USD. 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 role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

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. 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.

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