Staff Platform Engineer – AI Cloud Native

TRSS; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 293,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Flex My Way policies

Career development programs

Industry competitive benefits

Job summary

Thomson Reuters in New York, NY is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer for the Materia AI initiative. You will lead design, development, and evolution of cloud-native platforms powering AI workloads, mentoring engineers and driving best practices in a fast-paced environment.

You will collaborate with AI/ML teams, frontend developers, product managers, and SREs to build scalable services, reference CI/CD pipelines, and robust production infrastructure across multi-cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in backend or platform engineering or SRE.
• Experience deploying backend services and client interfaces for internal staff.
• Deep knowledge of DNS, TCP/IP, TLS and network troubleshooting.
• Extensive cloud-native experience with Kubernetes/ECS, VPCs, and IAM.
• Excellent communication to explain technical concepts to stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Innovate with startup speed and enterprise scale for AI and tax platforms.
• Launch AI-driven backend services powering generative agents and orchestration.
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers, frontend teams, PMs, and SREs.
• Develop golden path reference implementations for automated build/test/deploy.
• Design and manage CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Playwright, and Snyk.
• Develop Go CLI tools to streamline developer workflows.
• Establish and monitor DORA metrics to optimize velocity and quality.
• Lead scalable, secure production infrastructure using Kubernetes, AWS, GCP.
• Enforce platform security with multi-cloud and CNCF tools.
• Monitor/log/alert using DataDog and observability tooling.
• Lead 150+ team with process and documentation.
• Foster experimentation and adoption of new AI tech.
• Stay updated on cloud infra and SRE best practices.

Skills

Backend development

Platform engineering

SRE

Go/Python

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, related field, or equivalent experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Snyk

Playwright

DataDog

Job description

Thomson Reuters in New York, NY is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer for the Materia AI initiative. You will lead design, development, and evolution of cloud-native platforms powering AI workloads, mentoring engineers and driving best practices in a fast-paced environment.

You will collaborate with AI/ML teams, frontend developers, product managers, and SREs to build scalable services, reference CI/CD pipelines, and robust production infrastructure across multi-cloud environments.