Staff Platform Engineer - Materia AI

PowerToFly; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 99.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading information solutions provider based in Germany is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer for the Materia AI team. The role involves building cloud-native platforms and developing AI-driven systems. Candidates should have over 8 years of experience in backend development and a strong background in cloud-native services, particularly with Go and Kubernetes. The company offers flexible work arrangements, competitive benefits, and significant career development opportunities.

Leistungen

Flexible vacation

Mental Health Days

Tuition reimbursement

Remote work allowance

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of experience in backend development, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering.
• Excellent communication skills for technical concepts.
• Experience owning SOC 2 compliant systems end to end.

Aufgaben

• Build and maintain scalable and secure production infrastructure.
• Launch backend services for generative AI agents.
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers and product managers.

Kenntnisse

Backend development

Platform engineering

Production engineering

Cloud-native services

Go

Python

Rust

Terraform

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

DataDog

Jobbeschreibung

Staff 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.

About the Role:

• Innovate with Startup Speed and Enterprise Scale: Be part of a team that maintain[s]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 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.

About You:

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in backend development, platform engineering, production engineering, or site reliability engineering (SRE).
• Software Development: Experienced developing, deploying, and maintaining a backend service and associated client interface for the benefit of other product and engineering staff developing products for customers.
• Problem Solving: Deep experience troubleshooting low level DNS, TCP, IP, and TLS protocols. Creative problem solver who enjoys exploring new technologies.
• Cloud‑Native Expertise: 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.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Curiosity: Eager to explore and understand emerging agentic software paradigms.
• Quality: Dedicated to building high‑quality, reliable platform systems.
• Adaptability: Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, evolving environment.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, related field, or equivalent 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 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 design patterns.

What’s 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 tomorrow’s 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.

This job posting will close 02/26/2026.

Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees including health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, a competitive 401(k) plan with company match, and additional benefits such as optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance, life and AD&D insurance, Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts, fitness reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, Group Legal Identity Theft Protection, computer benefits, tuition reimbursement, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and commuter benefits. Compensation ranges for U.S. locations are $99,400 USD – $184,600 USD, and for Ontario, Canada $106,000 CAD – $156,000 CAD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on knowledge, skills, and experience.

Thomson Reuters is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex/gender, pregnancy, gender identity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status or any other protected classification under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.