Staff Software Engineer, Search Control Plane & Platform

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Eagan (MN)

Hybrid

USD 118,000 - 253,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and own the control plane behind our next‑generation search platform. You will automate provisioning, ensure sovereignty, and operate the scalable data path for query and ingest across Vespa/OpenSearch deployments.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver high‑reliability services with strong security and observability in a hybrid U.S. environment.

Qualifications

8+ years of software engineering experience with progression to staff-level scope.
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 or OpenSearch and capacity planning.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and own the control plane that creates, configures, upgrades, promotes, and retires search systems with full lifecycle management.
Provide automated provisioning for Kubernetes workloads, Kafka, ingestion pipelines, and data plane for query and ingest.
Define and enforce platform observability, SLOs, and security across multi-tenant environments.
Lead cross-team projects, mentor engineers, and partner with client teams to improve developer experience.