Senior Software Engineer – Rust, C++

Thomson Reuters

. Build the core document-processing platform behind Thomson Reuters AI products .

Posted 10/17/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $94,900 - $176,300 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in building and operating backend services, particularly in Rust and C++, with a strong focus on distributed systems, performance optimization, and compliance. Proven ability to lead complex projects, mentor engineers, and translate business needs into technical solutions.

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Rust Backend DevelopmentDistributed Systems ExpertiseProject LeadershipDesign DocumentationAzure Deployment

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Hard Skills

Backend Services DevelopmentPerformance ProfilingLoad TestingMessage QueuesCI/CD PracticesAgentic DevelopmentData Storage SolutionsSecurity-Conscious DevelopmentAutoscaling TechniquesCompliance Requirements

Soft Skills

Mentoring EngineersTechnical WritingCode Review StandardsProblem-SolvingCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

AzureKubernetesC#/.NETAsync/TokioAI Coding Agents

Industry Keywords

Document AIOCRPDF InternalsRegulated EnvironmentFedRAMPHIPAACJISFIPS 140SBOMsDependency Bans

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureKubernetesNoSQLRustC++.NET

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build the core document-processing platform behind Thomson Reuters AI products
Convert millions of document pages per day into clean, structured output through a queue-driven pipeline
Lead high-impact projects across DU Core and DU Apps
Translate product and consuming-team requests into functional and technical requirements
Write design documents and ADRs covering trade-offs, cost, latency, quality, failure modes, operability, and security
Define service architecture, deployment, and operation on Azure
Identify and resolve pipeline bottlenecks using production metrics, profiling, latency distributions, benchmarks, and load tests
Build and operate the processing pipeline end to end, including autoscaling, rate limiting, retries, vendor failover, large inputs, and bounded-memory streaming
Work primarily on Rust backend services and support C#/.NET customer-facing services
Safely evolve message schemas, APIs, and feature flags across services and repositories
Deliver backward-compatible changes with rollout and rollback plans
Write specifications and plans for coding agents, evaluate AI tools, and verify agent output with tests and evidence
Improve agent instructions, skills, review automation, and evaluation practices
Instrument services, participate in on-call and incident response, write blameless postmortems, and implement lasting fixes
Own large project design and rollout from requirements through production
Mentor engineers and raise code and design review standards
Translate business needs into technical solutions and influence product and platform decisions

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of professional software development experience building and operating backend services in production in Rust or C++
If experienced in C++, willingness to work in Rust day to day
Experience leading complex projects across teams, including architecture for multi-region or highly available systems
Experience designing features with privacy and compliance requirements in mind
Deep distributed-systems expertise, including message queues, at-least-once delivery, idempotency, backpressure, retries, timeouts, failure detection, and autoscaling
Experience choosing between relational, NoSQL, and other storage options for a workload
Performance work at scale, including profiling, benchmarking, memory budgets, concurrency limits, and handling inputs that do not fit in memory
Track record of written design work such as design docs, ADRs, or RFCs that compared options and drove decisions
Experience turning ambiguous asks into scoped, testable requirements
Excellent software development fundamentals, including unit, integration, and load testing, security-conscious defaults, and CI/CD
Experience mentoring engineers, with strong code-review and technical-writing skills
Hands-on experience with agentic development, such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot
Ownership mindset, including following work into production, leading root-cause analysis, and fixing issues
Willingness to join the on-call rotation
Willingness to work in C#/.NET and learn it if needed
Must be located in the United States
Must be a U.S. Person and legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship
Preferred: professional Rust experience with async/Tokio, typed errors, performance and memory tuning
Preferred: daily critical use of AI coding agents
Preferred: experience building developer tooling for AI agents
Preferred: document AI, OCR, PDF internals, format conversion, or very large-input experience
Preferred: third-party vendor integration behind an abstraction with health-based routing or failover
Preferred: Azure, Kubernetes autoscaling, and multi-region deployment experience
Preferred: professional C#/.NET experience
Preferred: regulated-environment experience such as FedRAMP, HIPAA, CJIS, FIPS 140, SBOMs, or dependency bans

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Flexible vacation
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Headspace app access
Retirement savings
Competitive 401k plan with company match
Tuition reimbursement
Employee incentive programs
Mental, physical, and financial wellbeing resources
Two paid volunteer days off annually
Pro-bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives
Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
Sick and safe paid time off
Paid holidays
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 based on enterprise and individual performance may be available