Staff Data Platform Engineer
Thomson Reuters1 month ago
Base Salary
$147k - $273k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical roadmap for the data platform while balancing scalability, reliability, security, compliance, cost, risk, and business priorities.
- Architect high-throughput pipelines and storage systems for large-scale legal and financial document data.
- Lead technology selection, system design, and infrastructure strategy across the platform.
- Advance data governance, privacy controls, compliance frameworks, and audit capabilities for regulated data.
- Partner with machine learning and AI leaders to support model training, evaluation, and inference at scale.
- Establish technical standards, mentor engineers, build the platform organization, and represent the function in company-wide architecture decisions.
- Remain hands-on by owning critical systems and contributing production code to solve complex technical challenges.
Requirements
- 10 or more years of software engineering experience, including at least six years focused on data platforms, infrastructure, or large-scale backend systems.
- Expertise architecting distributed systems, high-throughput pipelines, and petabyte-scale or similarly complex data processing environments.
- Deep knowledge of big data technologies, distributed databases, and modern data platforms.
- Strong systems programming skills in Python, Java, C++, Rust, or Go, with experience delivering production systems.
- Expertise in data compliance, privacy engineering, and secure data handling in regulated environments.
- Experience building and mentoring engineering teams and driving complex technical initiatives to completion.
- Experience balancing engineering quality, delivery speed, cost, risk, and business impact.
- Preferred: experience in high-growth environments, major architectural transitions or platform migrations, technical writing or public speaking, machine learning infrastructure or feature stores, and legal technology, financial services, or other regulated industries.
- Coding experience in Python.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements, including the ability to work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Career development through continuous learning, Grow My Way programming, and skills-first development support.
- Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, two company-wide mental health days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- US benefits include health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, paid holidays, parental leave, sabbatical leave, and paid time off.
- Additional benefits may include fitness reimbursement, employee assistance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, commuter benefits, adoption and surrogacy assistance, legal identity theft protection, a 529 plan, and an employee stock purchase plan.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
- The posting is scheduled to close on 01/31/2027.
About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters builds research platforms, workflow software, and data services for legal, tax and accounting, compliance, and government professionals, and operates the Reuters global news service. Flagship products include Westlaw for legal research and ONESOURCE and Checkpoint for tax and accounting, sold primarily via subscriptions and enterprise licenses. A public company headquartered in Toronto, it was formed in 2008 by combining Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group and is listed on the TSX and Nasdaq as TRI.