Staff Software Engineer I

Thomson Reuters Foundation; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Mental Health Days off

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Thomson Reuters Foundation seeks a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across the Cloud Cost Management and Reporting portfolio, mentoring engineers and shaping architecture for scalable, reliable solutions. You will collaborate with FinOps and cloud platform teams to transform cost data into actionable insights for strategic decisions.

The role emphasizes API design, data pipelines, and observability, with a hybrid work model and opportunities for career growth within an

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Expertise in cloud-native application development and distributed systems.
• Strong experience with AWS and familiarity with Azure, GCP, or OCI.
• Experience designing APIs, data pipelines, and scalable reporting or analytics solutions.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, security, CI/CD, and observability practices.
• Strong understanding of data modeling.
• Proven ability to lead large initiatives across multiple teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of complex features across the Cost management and Reporting portolio.
• Establish engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices to ensure maintainable and scalable solutions.
• Drive modernization efforts, technical debt reduction, platform simplification, and operational excellence.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and analytics to improve platform capabilities and customer experience.
• Provide technical leadership for emerging initiatives and proof-of-concept efforts.
• Drive engineering efficiency through automation and adoption of modern development practices.
• Champion high-quality software engineering practices including testing, observability, security, automation, and CI/CD.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentor and coach engineers across the organization.
• Lead design reviews and foster a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Skills

Cloud-native development

Distributed systems

AWS

APIs design

Data modeling

CI/CD

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Snowflake

Job description

Job Description

The Staff Software Engineer provides technical leadership across the Cloud Cost Management and Reporting portfolio, including home grown built tools for cost reporting, forecasting, optimization, software inventory, and related internal engineering tools. This role is responsible for driving architectural direction, delivering complex cross-functional initiatives, mentoring engineers, and ensuring the long-term scalability, reliability, and effectiveness of our solutions. The Staff Software Engineer partners closely with engineering leadership, product stakeholders, FinOps teams, cloud platform teams, and business partners to transform cloud and AI cost data into actionable insights that support strategic decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of complex features across the Cost management and Reporting portolio.
• Establish engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices to ensure maintainable and scalable solutions.
• Drive modernization efforts, technical debt reduction, platform simplification, and operational excellence.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and analytics to improve platform capabilities and customer experience.
• Provide technical leadership for emerging initiatives and proof-of-concept efforts.
• Drive engineering efficiency through automation and adoption of modern development practices.
• Champion high-quality software engineering practices including testing, observability, security, automation, and CI/CD.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentor and coach engineers across the organization.
• Lead design reviews and foster a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Expertise in cloud-native application development and distributed systems.
• Strong experience with AWS and familiarity with Azure, GCP, or OCI.
• Experience designing APIs, data pipelines, and scalable reporting or analytics solutions.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, security, CI/CD, and observability practices.
• Strong understanding of data modeling.
• Proven ability to lead large initiatives across multiple teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with FinOps, cloud cost management, forecasting, budgeting, or chargeback/showback solutions.
• Experience with AI/LLM platforms, cost reporting, and AI governance.
• Experience with Power BI, Snowflake, data warehousing, or enterprise reporting platforms.
• Experience leading platform modernization and cloud optimization initiatives.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and shaping technical strategy.

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge Your Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Recruitment Process

Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out, our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role, and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool, but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role.

Benefits (in the United States)

• In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees.
• Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match.
• In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws.
• Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Salary and Compensation

• Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $118,400 USD - $219,800 USD.
• For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $140,600 CAD - $190,600 CAD.
• Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity.
• Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.
• This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them.

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