Staff Engineer, Ingestion & Search Platform at Scale

Thomson Reuters; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 118,400 - 219,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation

Mental Health Days off

Tuition reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Eagan, Minnesota to lead the architecture and implementation of its document ingestion pipeline. You will be responsible for managing the ingestion and indexing systems across the search platform. Ideal candidates should have over 8 years of software engineering experience, deep expertise in distributed stream processing, and familiarity with technologies like Kafka, Vespa, and OpenSearch. The position offers competitive compensation and extensive benefits within a supportive, hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including ownership of a functional area.
• Deep expertise in distributed stream processing architecture.
• Production experience with search technologies including Vespa and OpenSearch.

Responsibilities

• Design and own the document ingestion pipeline architecture.
• Lead the migration of ingestion infrastructure from OpenSearch to Vespa.
• Maintain operational responsibility for ingestion and indexing infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed stream processing

Kafka

Python

AWS services

Machine Learning operationalization

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Vespa

OpenSearch

Kafka

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Eagan, Minnesota to lead the architecture and implementation of its document ingestion pipeline. You will be responsible for managing the ingestion and indexing systems across the search platform. Ideal candidates should have over 8 years of software engineering experience, deep expertise in distributed stream processing, and familiarity with technologies like Kafka, Vespa, and OpenSearch. The position offers competitive compensation and extensive benefits within a supportive, hybrid working environment.