Senior Software Engineer, AI-Powered Search Platform Hybrid

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Flexible benefits

Mental health days

Volunteer days

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Search Platform to own ingestion pipelines, indexing, and query APIs. You will help move content into searchable knowledge and build reliable cloud infrastructure with AI-assisted development practices.

You’ll participate in on-call rotations, implement observability, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with TR Labs to bring novel search capabilities into production.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building backend or data infra systems with end-to-end ownership.
• Proficient in Python, Java, or Go and choosing the right tool.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud platforms (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate platform services for ingestion, indexing, and query APIs.
• Own on-call incidents and improve reliability with monitoring and tracing.
• Lead projects, mentor juniors, and coordinate with researchers to adopt new search capabilities.
• Collaborate with client teams to translate requirements into scalable platform features.

Skills

5+ years exp

Python/Java/Go

Distributed systems

AWS

On-call/Observability

Education

CS or related degree

Tools

OpenSearch / Vespa

Kafka

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Search Platform to own ingestion pipelines, indexing, and query APIs. You will help move content into searchable knowledge and build reliable cloud infrastructure with AI-assisted development practices.

You’ll participate in on-call rotations, implement observability, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with TR Labs to bring novel search capabilities into production.