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Senior Data Platform Engineer
Thomson Reuters. Design and optimize pipelines that ingest, transform, and distribute large-scale document data .
Posted 9/25/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • United StatesSenior💰 $136,000 - $253,000 per yearWebsite
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformHadoopJavaKafkaNoSQLPythonSparkSQLC++Go
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design and optimize pipelines that ingest, transform, and distribute large-scale document data
- Build and maintain reliable, high-performance backend services for document storage, retrieval, and processing
- Implement data governance, privacy controls, audit trails, and regulatory compliance requirements, including GDPR
- Lead database migrations and improve schema design, query performance, and data scalability
- Partner with machine learning and AI teams to support model training and inference at scale
- Mentor engineers on platform architecture, engineering practices, and system design
Requirements
What you’ll need- Seven or more years of software engineering experience, including at least four years focused on data platforms, backend infrastructure, or related systems
- Strong experience with distributed systems, data warehousing, or large-scale data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, or Snowflake
- Proficiency in at least one systems programming language, such as Python, Java, C++, or Go
- Experience designing scalable APIs
- Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, data modeling, and query optimization
- Experience with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code practices
- Experience with data compliance, privacy regulations, or secure data handling
- Experience in legal technology, financial services, or another highly regulated industry
- Record of leading cross-functional initiatives and mentoring engineers
- Experience with real-time data processing and streaming technologies such as Kafka or Flink
- Familiarity with machine learning pipelines and feature engineering platforms
- Coding in Python
Benefits
Comp & perks- Flexible hybrid working environment
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Flexible vacation
- Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
- Headspace app access
- Retirement savings
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee incentive programs
- Mental, physical, and financial wellbeing resources
- Two paid volunteer days off annually
- Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
- Competitive 401k plan with company match
- Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
- Paid holidays, including two company mental health days off
- Parental leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance
- Optional life and AD&D insurance
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
- Fitness reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
- Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit
- 529 Plan access
- Commuter benefits
- Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Annual bonus eligibility based on enterprise and individual performance