# Staff Software Engineer, Search Control Plane

Staff Software Engineer, Search Control Plane Our vision We are building the next-generation search platform, with a vision to democratize knowledge construction and consumption at Thomson Reuters. The platform consolidates search systems across Thomson Reuters products and services, serving millions of end users, internal agents, and internal search teams, into a fully managed, customizable, sovereign, and self-serve search platform. Job Description: The AI Enabled Software Engineering (AIESE) team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for a highly impactful role at the foundation of the search platform. You will design and deliver a fully managed, highly scalable, and reliable control plane that brings a search system to life and manages its full lifecycle at the click of a button. That means automating the provisioning of Kubernetes, Kafka, ingestion pipelines, and the data plane for query and ingest, with sovereignty and observability built in from the start, and owning the infrastructure that runs every search index. Every search system that moves onto the platform depends on what you build, so your work sets how quickly and safely teams across Thomson Reuters can create, chang

- **Id**: 3840321
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/thomson-reuters-staff-software-engineer-search-control-plane>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States, Frisco, United States, Toronto, Canada, United States
- **Countries**: US, CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T22:28:11Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T15:03:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 14147
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Continuous learning, Equity, Flexible schedule, Hybrid work, Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: News Agencies, RegTech, AML & Compliance, Accounting & Tax Software, Legal Software

## Company

- **Id**: 1951
- **Name**: Thomson Reuters
- **Domain**: thomsonreuters.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/thomson-reuters>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 128
- **Ghost share**: 0.078
- **Stale share**: 0.391
- **Repost share**: 0.172
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 136000
- **Max**: 253000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 253000

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **OpenSearch** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Vespa** — Optional: no
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: yes
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T22:28:11Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 51 · green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 51

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 253000
- **Is top pay**: no

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