Staff Platform Engineer — AI-Powered Cloud Platform Lead

Thomson Reuters; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Flexible work arrangements

Career development programs

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer for its Materia AI initiative. You will help design and scale cloud-native platforms powering AI-enabled workflows for accounting and advisory professionals, while mentoring teams and shaping engineering standards.

The role emphasizes production-grade infrastructure, robust security, and end-to-end platform delivery, with a hybrid work model and extensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend/Platform/SRE experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and evolution of cloud-native platforms.
• Mentor engineers and champion best practices.
• Build scalable, secure production infrastructure across multi-cloud.
• Develop reference CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Playwright, Snyk.
• Create Go CLI tools to streamline developer workflows.
• Improve DORA metrics and deployment velocity.
• Collaborate with AI/ML teams, frontend, product, and SREs.

Skills

Cloud-native platform engineering

SRE experience

Go/Python/Rust

Kubernetes

DevOps practices

DNS/TLS troubleshooting

Communication

Curiosity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

ECS

GitHub Actions

Playwright

Snyk

DataDog

LLM observability tools

Terraform

CUE

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer for its Materia AI initiative. You will help design and scale cloud-native platforms powering AI-enabled workflows for accounting and advisory professionals, while mentoring teams and shaping engineering standards.

The role emphasizes production-grade infrastructure, robust security, and end-to-end platform delivery, with a hybrid work model and extensive benefits.