Staff Platform Engineer: AI-Native Cloud & Production

TRSS; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Annual Bonus eligibility

Flexible benefits and wellness

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer for the Materia AI initiative. You will lead the design, development, and evolution of cloud-native platforms powering agentic workflows, guiding architecture while mentoring a large team.

You will build scalable, secure production systems using Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP, and drive CI/CD excellence with GitHub Actions, Playwright, and Snyk. A focus on DORA metrics and developer experience is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend/platform engineering/SRE experience.
• Experience building and maintaining backend services for product teams.
• Troubleshooting DNS, TCP, IP, and TLS at low levels.
• Cloud-native expertise across containers, orchestration, storage, IAM, CI/CD, and networks.
• Strong communication and ability to influence stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Innovate with startup speed and enterprise scale for tax/accounting AI platforms.
• Deliver AI-driven backend services powering generative agents and orchestration systems.
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers, frontend teams, PMs, and SREs to build robust services.
• Develop golden path reference CI/CD workflows for build/test/deploy.
• Design and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Playwright, and Snyk.
• Develop Go CLIs and services to streamline developer workflows.
• Lead production infra with Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and cost-efficiency.
• Enforce platform security using multi-cloud strategies and CNCF tools.
• Establish comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting with Datadog.

Skills

Backend development

Platform engineering

SRE experience

Cloud-native

Go

Python

Rust

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

GitHub Actions

Playwright

Snyk

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CUE

GitHub Actions

Playwright

Snyk

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer for the Materia AI initiative. You will lead the design, development, and evolution of cloud-native platforms powering agentic workflows, guiding architecture while mentoring a large team.

You will build scalable, secure production systems using Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP, and drive CI/CD excellence with GitHub Actions, Playwright, and Snyk. A focus on DORA metrics and developer experience is essential.