Senior Software Engineer- Rust / C++
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Base Salary
$95k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate product and consuming-team requests into scoped functional and technical requirements with acceptance criteria and measurable outcomes.
- Write design documents and ADRs that evaluate trade-offs involving cost, latency, quality, failure modes, operability, and security.
- Define service architecture, deployment, and operational boundaries on Azure.
- Build and operate a queue-driven document-processing pipeline supporting autoscaling, rate limiting, retries, failover, streaming, bounded memory, and high throughput.
- Profile production systems, run benchmarks and load tests, and optimize latency, concurrency, memory usage, and throughput.
- Develop primarily in Rust and support customer-facing C#/.NET services.
- Evolve message schemas, APIs, feature flags, and cross-repository contracts with backward-compatible rollout and rollback plans.
- Use and evaluate AI coding agents, improve agent instructions and review automation, and verify generated code with tests and evidence.
- Instrument services, participate in on-call and incident response, conduct blameless postmortems, and implement lasting fixes.
- Lead high-impact projects from requirements through production, mentor engineers, conduct code and design reviews, and influence technical and product direction.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software development experience building and operating production backend services in Rust or C++; C++ candidates must be willing to work in Rust daily.
- Experience leading complex cross-team projects and architecting multi-region or highly available systems.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, including message queues, at-least-once delivery, idempotency, backpressure, retries, timeouts, failure detection, and autoscaling.
- Experience selecting relational, NoSQL, and other storage technologies for specific workloads.
- Demonstrated performance work at scale involving profiling, benchmarking, memory budgets, concurrency limits, and inputs larger than available memory.
- Experience producing design documents, ADRs, or RFCs that compare options and drive decisions, and translating ambiguous requests into testable requirements.
- Strong software fundamentals, including layered testing, security-conscious defaults, incremental delivery, CI/CD, code review, and technical writing.
- Experience mentoring engineers and participating in root-cause analysis and production ownership.
- Hands-on experience with agentic development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.
- Willingness to join on-call rotation and work in or learn C#/.NET.
- Preferred: Rust async development with Tokio, typed error modeling, and performance and memory tuning.
- Preferred: experience with AI coding-agent tooling, MCP servers, multi-agent review, agent-output evaluation, document AI, OCR, PDF internals, file-format conversion, third-party vendor failover, Azure, Kubernetes autoscaling, regulated environments, FedRAMP, HIPAA, CJIS, FIPS 140 cryptography, SBOMs, or dependency controls.
- Must be located in the United States, be a U.S. Person, and be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Flexible vacation, two company-wide mental health days, Headspace access, retirement savings with 401(k) match, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- Health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, paid holidays, sick and safe paid time off, parental leave, sabbatical leave, and employee assistance programs.
- Fitness reimbursement, flexible spending and health savings accounts, commuter benefits, adoption and surrogacy assistance, a 529 plan, legal identity theft protection, and an employee stock purchase plan.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
- The posting is for a U.S.-based employee role and closes on 01/31/2027.
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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.