Staff Platform Engineer - Materia AI

Thomson Reuters•Frisco, TX

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in backend development, platform engineering, production engineering, or site reliability engineering (SRE).
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.
Deep experience troubleshooting low level DNS, TCP, IP, and TLS protocols.
Creative problem solver who enjoys exploring new technologies.
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.
Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Eager to explore and understand emerging agentic software paradigms.
Dedicated to building high-quality, reliable platform systems.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, related field, or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Be part of a team that maintains the innovation velocity of a startup while leveraging the operational maturity of a global enterprise.
Work with top AI and software development experts, building intelligent and scalable systems for accounting professionals.
Launch backend services into production that power generative AI agents and orchestration systems.
Work closely with AI/ML engineers, frontend developers, product managers, and SREs to build robust services and developer experiences.
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.
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.
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.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working environment
Flex My Way policies
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Grow My Way programming
Skills-first approach
Flexible vacation
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Access to the Headspace app
Retirement savings
Tuition reimbursement
Employee incentive programs
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance
Two paid volunteer days off annually
Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
Competitive 401k plan with company match
Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
Paid holidays
Parental leave
Sabbatical leave
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
Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan