Senior Software Engineer - News Engineering (Elasticsearch)

LSEG•St. Louis, MO

1d•$113,900 - $189,900•Hybrid

About The Position

LSEG’s News Engineering group is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help evolve our News platform, delivering enriched breaking news to customers worldwide in sub‑second time. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive as individual contributors and can lead a scrum team. You’ll deepen your expertise in low-latency, high-throughput systems and have clear paths to expanding your career to technical leadership, architecture, reliability, or applied ML for news analytics. As a senior software engineer in the News team at LSEG, you will build and evolve services, primarily in Java and Python, with a strong emphasis on performance, observability, and continuous improvement in a cloud-native environment. We encourage pragmatic experimentation with new tools, libraries, and approaches when they improve reliability, performance, or developer experience. Learn how structured data and News industry standards enable fast, reliable news delivery while simplifying problems for customers. Collaborate in a scrum team, crafting solutions and delivering new features. Own the design and delivery of critical services, from architecture decisions through to production support, with autonomy to influence technical direction. Help automate deployment, upgrades, and maintenance using modern DevOps techniques. Participate in a well-structured on-call rotation focused on sustainability, automation, and preventing repeat incidents — not heroics.

Requirements

Solid experience with Java and Python on Linux and real-time systems.
Practical experience in using IP-based protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, HTTPS, etc).
Familiarity with unit testing and test-driven development.
Understanding of search technology such as Elasticsearch.
Experience with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration.
Strong problem-solving skills.
Ability to work independently and communicate clearly.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
Experience with GitHub Copilot to aid in the engineering process.
Knowledge of NewsMLG2 or similar standards and experience implementing a standard format at speed.

Responsibilities

Build and evolve services, primarily in Java and Python.
Emphasize performance, observability, and continuous improvement in a cloud-native environment.
Collaborate in a scrum team, crafting solutions and delivering new features.
Own the design and delivery of critical services, from architecture decisions through to production support.
Help automate deployment, upgrades, and maintenance using modern DevOps techniques.
Participate in a well-structured on-call rotation focused on sustainability, automation, and preventing repeat incidents.