Senior Manager, Software Engineering -Search Platform
Core
Lead the engineering team building, operating, and evolving the shared search platform infrastructure for Thomson Reuters' legal, tax, and professional products.
Role type
Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Platform)
Builds
Shared search platform infrastructure, self-service APIs, and production search solutions for internal client teams.
Domain
Legal technology, search infrastructure, distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure | product features
Required skills
Distributed systems design, cloud infrastructure (AWS), API design, software architecture, Python, DevOps, observability, team leadership, hiring, on-call management, SLO definition, incident response, agile methodologies
Preferred skills
Search engines (Vespa, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Solr), multi-tenant platform infrastructure, event-driven architectures (Kafka, MSK), AI/ML research partnership
Technologies
Vespa, Kafka, MSK, AWS, Python
Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end platform engineering roadmap; drive API-first self-service architectural thinking; lead migration to strategic search engine; champion full-stack operational ownership; build and lead a team of ~10 engineers; define engineering processes for platform and solution delivery; partner with TR Labs on AI capabilities.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities
