Staff Software Engineer – AI-Powered Search Control Plane

Thomson Reuters; New York, Frisco, Eagan (NY, TX, MN); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work

Benefits package

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Search Control Plane in a hybrid setting across New York and other U.S. and international locations.

You will design, build, and operate a fully managed control plane that provisions Kubernetes, Kafka, ingestion pipelines, and data planes for query and ingest with strong observability. You will lead architectural decisions, own cross-team projects, mentor engineers, and drive multi-tenant security and AI-assisted development practices

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with staff-level scope and ownership.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production platforms at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own the control plane for search systems with full lifecycle management.
• Automate provisioning for Kubernetes, Kafka, ingestion pipelines, and data plane.
• Define and enforce versioned APIs, RBAC, and cross-team developer experience.

Skills

Software architecture

Go/Java/Python

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Kafka

Observability

AI-assisted development

Education

CS/Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

Vespa/OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

AWS

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Search Control Plane in a hybrid setting across New York and other U.S. and international locations.

You will design, build, and operate a fully managed control plane that provisions Kubernetes, Kafka, ingestion pipelines, and data planes for query and ingest with strong observability. You will lead architectural decisions, own cross-team projects, mentor engineers, and drive multi-tenant security and AI-assisted development practices