Staff Software Engineer, AI-Driven Search Control Plane

Thomson Reuters; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the AI Enabled Software Engineering (AIESE) team to build a scalable control plane for the search platform. You will design and own provisioning of Kubernetes, Kafka, ingestion pipelines, and data plane for query and ingest with sovereignty and observability built in from the start.

You will define lifecycle workflows, implement secure, scalable multi-tenant infrastructure, and drive platform reliability and performance while mentoring

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with progression to staff-level scope and cross-functional leadership
• Experience designing, building, and operating production platform or infrastructure services at scale
• Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred) including Kubernetes and infrastructure as code
• Production experience operating a search engine such as Vespa, OpenSearch, or Elasticsearch
• Operational rigor: SLO definition, observability, on-call leadership

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own the control plane that creates, configures, upgrades, promotes, and retires search systems with full lifecycle management
• Own automated provisioning of Kubernetes workloads, Kafka, ingestion pipelines, and the data plane for query and ingest
• Provide lifecycle workflows for schema changes, reingest, index switch, and rollback with ready status
• Build sovereignty into the platform: tenant data isolation, enterprise identity and RBAC
• Design the configuration data model and persistence layer for system definitions, registries, index lifecycle state, and audit history
• Set platform interface standards and documentation; expose evaluation and experimentation workflows

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

SRE practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

OpenSearch

Vespa

Elasticsearch

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the AI Enabled Software Engineering (AIESE) team to build a scalable control plane for the search platform. You will design and own provisioning of Kubernetes, Kafka, ingestion pipelines, and data plane for query and ingest with sovereignty and observability built in from the start.

You will define lifecycle workflows, implement secure, scalable multi-tenant infrastructure, and drive platform reliability and performance while mentoring