Senior Software Engineer, AI-Driven Search Platform

Thomson Reuters; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

401k with company match

Mental health days off

Job summary

Thomson Reuters Corp. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Search Platform.

You will design, build, test, and operate production systems that power content ingestion, indexing, and search APIs across Thomson Reuters products and AI agents. In this role, you will own features end-to-end, contribute to OpenSearch/Vespa migrations, work with cloud infrastructure (AWS), and mentor junior engineers while participating in on-call rotations and incident response.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating backend or data infra with end-to-end ownership.

Responsibilities

• Build platform services for ingestion, indexing, and query APIs using appropriate languages.
• Own on-call incidents, add observability, and drive reliability improvements.
• Lead projects, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with TR Labs and research teams.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

AI-assisted development

Java

Go

On-call ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Tools

AWS

OpenSearch

Vespa

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Thomson Reuters Corp. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Search Platform.

You will design, build, test, and operate production systems that power content ingestion, indexing, and search APIs across Thomson Reuters products and AI agents. In this role, you will own features end-to-end, contribute to OpenSearch/Vespa migrations, work with cloud infrastructure (AWS), and mentor junior engineers while participating in on-call rotations and incident response.