Staff Platform Engineer - Materia AI

Job Description

Staff Platform Engineer- Materia AI

Are you excited about building cloud-native platforms that power Agentic workloads? Join a dynamic and highly skilled team at Thomson Reuters, where we combine the agility and innovation of a startup with the stability and resources of a global leader.
As a Platform Engineer, you will contribute to leading the design, development, and evolution of our next-generation cloud-native platforms. You will contribute to technical strategy, champion engineering excellence, and build highly scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure that empowers our product development teams.
You will be a hands-on technical leader, influencing architectural decisions, mentoring team members, and championing best practices in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

In this opportunity as a Staff Platform Engineer- Materia AI you will:

• Innovate with Startup Speed and Enterprise Scale: Be part of a team that maintains the innovation velocity of a startup while leveraging the operational maturity of a global enterprise. You'll work with top AI and software development experts, building intelligent and scalable systems for accounting professionals. This role is for the CoCounsel for Tax and Accounting team, evolved from the acquisition of Materia, now integrating best-in-class enterprise practices with rapid innovation cycles.
• Deliver AI-Driven Systems: Launch backend services into production that power generative AI agents and orchestration systems. This role requires both creativity and rigor to ensure our AI-driven solutions are secure, performant, reliable, and adaptable to real-world use cases.
• Collaborate Across Functions: Work closely with AI/ML engineers, frontend developers, product managers, and SREs to build robust services and developer experiences. Help to build out AI native products for tax, accounting, and audit professionals.
• Developer Enablement: Build and maintain "golden path" reference implementations for automated build, test, and deploy workflows that development teams can adopt and customize.
• Design, implement, and manage reference CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Playwright, and Snyk.
• Develop Go command-line tools and services that streamline and empower developer workflows, from local development to production deployment.
• Establish, measure, and continuously improve DORA metrics, for example deployment frequency, change failure rate to optimize the velocity and quality of product delivery.
• Production Engineering: Lead the design and implementation of scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective production infrastructure using Kubernetes, Vercel, AWS, GCP, and AI platforms.
• Establish and enforce platform security best practices using multi-cloud strategies and open-source CNCF solutions, integrating with cloud-native security tools and Thomson Reuters internal infrastructure.
• Design and implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using tools such as DataDog and LLM observability tools.
• Collaboration and Leadership: Set up the necessary processes and documentation to support a team of 150+ product managers, researchers, and engineers. Align with product, development, and operations teams on business objectives.
• Foster a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement, exploring new AI technologies and methodologies.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in cloud computing, platform engineering, and site reliability engineering, advocating for their adoption where appropriate.

Required Qualifications:
You’re a fit for the role of Staff Platform Engineer- Materia AI ​if your background includes:

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in backend development, platform engineering, production engineering, or site reliability engineering (SRE).
• Software Development: Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining a backend service and associated client interface for the benefit of other product and engineering staff developing products for customers.
• Problem Solving: Deep experience troubleshooting low level DNS, TCP, IP, and TLS protocols. Creative problem solver who enjoys exploring new technologies.
• Cloud-Native Expertise: Extensive hands-on experience with cloud-native services, including deep proficiency with container registries, orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS), object storage (buckets), managed PostgreSQL, serverless functions, networking (VPCs/service mesh), identity and access management, infrastructure-as-code, secrets management, and pub/sub messaging systems.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Curiosity: Eager to explore and understand emerging agentic software paradigms.
• Quality: Dedicated to building high-quality, reliable platform systems.
• Adaptability: Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, related field, or equivalent experience

Preferred qualifications:

• Fluent in Go, Python, Rust, or another systems level language.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Terraform and CUE.
• Experience with AI-driven systems, agent-based architectures, LLM evaluation tools, and AI APIs from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Experience owning SOC 2 compliant systems end to end.
• Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, or search-based AI.
• Strong opinions on infrastructure design, end to end testing strategies, automation, middleware, and RPC/REST API designs patterns.

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This posting is for proactive recruitment purposes and may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies within our organization.

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 (Y)our 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.

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.

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.

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. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $158,000 USD - $293,000 USD. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $137,100 USD - $254,700 USD. 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. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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