Staff Software Engineer I
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Bengaluru, India or Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and build production AI agents that use context, tool and function calling, multi-step workflows, retrieval, structured outputs, and human approval where appropriate.
- Build APIs, MCP servers, and integrations that provide safe, scoped access to cloud providers, source control, service management, observability, and internal platforms.
- Build infrastructure-as-code, delivery pipelines, and self-service capabilities that reduce engineering toil.
- Own agent evaluation, regression testing, observability, cost and latency management, guardrails, least-privilege access, prompt-injection defenses, and auditability.
- Lead major system designs, write design documents, lead design and code reviews, establish reusable standards, and mentor engineers.
- Partner with platform, cloud, security, SRE, and other stakeholders to turn ambiguous automation problems into well-defined solutions.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including designing, building, and operating production systems.
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language; Python is the primary language, with Go, TypeScript, C#, Java, or similar backgrounds considered.
- Hands-on experience building applications or agents on large language models, including tool and function calling, context management, retrieval, structured outputs, and practical knowledge of hallucination, non-determinism, and prompt injection.
- Experience with AWS and/or Azure and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Bicep.
- Experience with Git-based workflows, CI/CD, automated testing, and containers.
- Technical leadership experience including mentoring, leading through influence, design and code reviews, and improving team quality.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Preferred: experience with MCP, LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Microsoft Agent Framework, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, LLM evaluation suites, OpenTelemetry, Langfuse, LangSmith, Kubernetes, serverless or event-driven systems, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, on-call and incident response, networking, ServiceNow, or regulated enterprise environments.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model for office-based roles.
- Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Career development, 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, employee incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- Two paid volunteer days annually plus opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
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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.