Design scalable search infrastructure with Kubernetes and Kafka at Thomson Reuters in a adaptable hybrid work environment. Own the control plane powering search systems.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI Enabled Software Engineering team, you will build and operate the foundation of Thomson Reuters’ search platform. Your work spans distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, search indexes, and lifecycle automation. The platform serves millions of end users, internal agents, and search teams across products and services.

Key Responsibilities

Design and own search system control plane lifecycle workflows

Automate Kubernetes, Kafka, ingestion, and data plane provisioning

Manage schema changes, reingestion, index switching, and rollback

Build tenant isolation, identity, access controls,



and audit history

Operate infrastructure, observability, SLOs, incidents, and post-mortems

Requirements

Eight or more years of software engineering experience

Staff-level scope and cross-functional project leadership experience

Production platform or infrastructure experience at scale

AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code experience

Vespa, OpenSearch, or Elasticsearch operations experience

Bring distributed systems, search infrastructure, Kubernetes, and operational leadership to Thomson Reuters’ foundational control plane.

📌 Staff Search Platform Engineer (Winnipeg)
🏢 Thomson Reuters
📍 Winnipeg