Platform Engineering Lead: Backend & CI/CD

Relha LLC; Eagan, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Thomson Reuters seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a platform engineering team responsible for core backend services powering AI agent platforms. You will manage people while staying technically hands-on, setting strategy, and delivering reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities include architecture, CI/CD evolution, Kubernetes orchestration, and cross-functional delivery across product and AI teams. Hybrid US role with competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with leadership or people-management.
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Responsibilities

• Own people-management responsibilities for a team of platform engineers — hiring, performance management, career development, and workload/priority balancing — while remaining technically engaged in architecture and code-level decisions.
• Set and communicate team-level technical strategy and roadmap in partnership with engineering leadership, translating business priorities into an execution plan.
• Guide the design and delivery of backend and platform services that power AI agent workflows — request/event ingestion, agent orchestration, document and file handling — ensuring reliability and delivery speed for product teams building on the platform.
• Steer the evolution of the CI/CD and progressive-delivery infrastructure that lets both customer-facing product systems and internal developer tooling ship safely and continuously — including release-decoupling work that separates code deployment from customer-facing exposure.
• Ensure the team owns and evolves the cloud infrastructure the platform runs on — provisioning, capacity planning, and environment configuration — using Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Champion sound backend architecture with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability across a microservices/event-driven system, influencing long-term platform direction.
• Drive cross-functional technical initiatives with product, applied-AI, and infrastructure teams, aligning priorities and de-risking complex, multi-system projects from design through production.
• Raise the bar on engineering practices — code quality, automated testing, observability, CI/CD, and operational excellence — across the platform stack.
• Champion observability across the platform — metrics, logging, and tracing — ensuring your team and downstream teams have the visibility needed to operate complex systems with confidence.
• Ensure strong operational posture for the team's services — monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis for production systems running on managed cloud AI runtimes (e.g. AWS Bedrock AgentCore) and Kubernetes.
• Ensure the team maintains a healthy on-call rotation supporting our customer-facing systems and critical internal tooling, and participate in it yourself — treating every incident as an opportunity to protect the customer experience.
• Grow technical leadership within the team, fostering a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Kubernetes (EKS)

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

AWS CDK

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Job description

Thomson Reuters seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a platform engineering team responsible for core backend services powering AI agent platforms. You will manage people while staying technically hands-on, setting strategy, and delivering reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities include architecture, CI/CD evolution, Kubernetes orchestration, and cross-functional delivery across product and AI teams. Hybrid US role with competitive benefits.