Software Engineer

Job Description

Software Engineer, Public Records and Derived Authorities   

Are you ready to shape the future of AI-driven content technology while leading cutting-edge innovation in a mission-critical role? Do you thrive in environments where your technical expertise can directly impact how the world's leading professionals' access and utilize information? We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our Public Records Publishing and Derived Authorities team.  

As a Software Engineer, Public Records and Derived Authorities, you will:  

• Play a role in development of cutting-edge data platform.  

• Develop across the entire publishing stack, from content ingestion and storage through to efficient delivery to downstream systems.  

• You will collaborate with stakeholders, product leadership, and cross-functional teams to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade data systems that transform how our organization delivers value to customers.  

• You will work closely with Product Management, Technology, and our Labs teams to enable our customers to build successful features and products to take their business to the next level.  

• You will be developing and implementing solutions using Java, Python, Snowflake, AWS cloud infrastructure, and modern data engineering practices.  

Key Responsibilities   

• Develop large‑scale, cloud‑native data pipelines and publishing systems—processing billions of records using Snowflake, Python, and AWS services.  

• Participate in technical innovation, evaluating emerging data engineering techniques, leading proofs of concept, and shaping long‑term data platform roadmaps.  

• Ensure data quality, observability, and operational excellence through testing frameworks, performance optimization, monitoring, and governance for security/compliance.  

• Collaboration  with cross-functional teams including with Product, Engineering, and Labs teams to translate data capabilities into application features and market‑ready content workflows.  

Required Qualifications

The Ideal Candidate Profile:  

We're seeking an engineer with strong hands-on development skills who has worked with large datasets and modern data platforms. You should be comfortable writing Python code, developing stored procedures, optimizing data pipelines, and designing scalable data architectures. Strong software engineering fundamentals, data modeling expertise, and production data platform experience are essential.  

  

You are a fit for the position if your background includes:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering  

• Proven hands‑on engineering background with expertise in Python, data pipelines, and production-grade ETL/ELT systems.  

• Demonstrated experience delivering production‑grade software through the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements definition, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.  

• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools, including Cursor and/or Claude, is required  

• Capabilities in SQL, data modeling, distributed data processing, data quality frameworks, and cloud cost/performance optimization.  

• Solid software engineering fundamentals including API development, testing, design patterns, Git workflows; bonus for Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform.  

Preferred Qualifications  

• Experience with data publishing workflows and content delivery systems  

• Domain expertise in legal, tax, accounting, or other regulated industries, particularly with investigative platforms or systems that search and analyze large-scale public and proprietary records  

• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)    

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

 

 

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $76,200 USD - $141,400 USD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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