Lead Platform Engineer, Thomson Reuters
CA$140.6-190.6k
+ ESPP
Financial news and financial data provider
Open for applications
Financial news and financial data provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$140.6-190.6k
+ ESPP
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help professionals advance their businesses and gain competitive advantage with the trusted answers only we can provide.
Role
Who you are
- Approximately 7+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating large-scale backend systems in production environments in a lead capacity for 1-2 years
- Strong proficiency in Python (FastAPI or similar) or another backend language, with experience building distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native applications
- Hands-on expertise with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and caching/messaging technologies (e.g. Redis), API design, AWS services including cloud AI runtimes (e.g. AWS Bedrock AgentCore), and container orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS)
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code solutions, and progressive delivery or release-engineering practices
- Strong experience with observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting production systems using technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Prometheus, or similar tools
- Experience supporting or integrating with AI/LLM-powered systems, including agent runtimes, LLM gateways, RAG architectures, retrieval systems, or related AI infrastructure
- Proven strength in system design, debugging, performance optimization, and making thoughtful trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term scalability
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions, collaborate across engineering and product teams, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
What the job involves
- As a Lead Platform Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership for critical platform capabilities, helping shape the architecture, reliability, and evolution of systems that support AI agent workflows across the business
- You'll partner closely with Product, Applied AI, and Engineering teams to accelerate the delivery of AI-driven innovation while maintaining high standards for scalability, performance, and operational excellence
- Lead the design, architecture, and delivery of backend and platform services that power AI agent workflows, ensuring scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions across a microservices and event-driven ecosystem
- Own and evolve cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and progressive delivery capabilities using Infrastructure-as-Code practices, enabling safe, continuous deployment and efficient developer workflows
- Drive cross-functional technical initiatives with Product, Applied AI, and Infrastructure teams, aligning priorities and leading complex projects from design through production
- Improve platform reliability, observability, performance, and cost efficiency through monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, and operational excellence across Kubernetes and managed AI runtimes
- Improve system performance, resilience, and cost efficiency by strengthening monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis for production systems running on managed cloud AI runtimes (e.g. AWS Bedrock AgentCore) and Kubernetes
- Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and help raise the bar for code quality, testing, reliability, and engineering best practices across the organization
- Participate in an on-call rotation supporting customer-facing systems and internal platform tooling, contributing to a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
Application process
- End Date: December 30, 2026
Our take
Thomson Reuters is reinventing the way professionals work. The multinational media conglomerate provides answers that help professionals make better decisions to run smarter businesses. It targets those in complicated sectors that move society forward; tax, law, compliance, government, and media.
Founded over 165 years ago, the company is now powered by thousands of international journalists. This bandwidth guarantees speed, impartiality, and insight that have helped Thomson Reuters retain its position a market leader. To stay competitive with companies founded in the digital era, Thomson Reuters places emphasis on helping clients reinvent themselves for the newly disruptive digital age.
As well as investing in the coverage of growth markets India and China, and embarking on a number of fintech acquisitions, Thomson Reuters announced an expansion of its long-term partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group in 2023. Together, they plan to enhance the value of financial and market news services to LSEG customers, whilst delivering a superior experience to professionals around the world.
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Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Wellington Place, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Steve Hasker
(CEO & President)Previously served as Senior Advisor for TPG, CEO for Creative Artists Agency, Global President & Chief Operating Office for Nielsen, and as a Partner for McKinsey & Company.
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