Staff Software Engineer — Next-Gen Retrieval Platform

Thomson Reuters; Eagan (MN); On-site; USD 118,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Mental health days

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Thomson Reuters seeks a Staff Software Engineer to help build a next-generation search and retrieval platform. You will partner with product, research engineering, and applied science to deliver scalable APIs, evaluation, security, and agent-focused capabilities at enterprise scale.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and drive cross-team initiatives while shipping production-ready platform capabilities and AI-assisted tooling.

Qualifications

• BS/BE in CS, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience building scalable search or data platforms.
• Experience designing APIs and services with contracts and versioning.
• Strong understanding of SLOs, observability, and incident learnings.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Turn customer needs into platform capabilities with product and client teams.
• Design retrieval APIs and search services for end users and agents.
• Make retrieval customizable with pluggable components and APIs.
• Own content ingestion, indexing, and zero-downtime index changes.

Skills

Distributed systems

API design

Python/Java/Go

Mentorship

AI-assisted development

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

Vespa

Job description

Thomson Reuters seeks a Staff Software Engineer to help build a next-generation search and retrieval platform. You will partner with product, research engineering, and applied science to deliver scalable APIs, evaluation, security, and agent-focused capabilities at enterprise scale.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and drive cross-team initiatives while shipping production-ready platform capabilities and AI-assisted tooling.