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From the employer's careers site First seen 26 Oct 2026

Staff Software Engineer

Thomson Reuters Hybrid staff full-time

Salary

$118,400 USD - $219,800 USD per year

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Description

The Staff Software Engineer provides technical leadership across the Cloud Cost Management and Reporting portfolio, including home grown built tools for cost reporting, forecasting, optimization, software inventory, and related internal engineering tools.

This role is responsible for driving architectural direction, delivering complex cross-functional initiatives, mentoring engineers, and ensuring the long-term scalability, reliability, and effectiveness of our solutions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead design and implementation of complex features across the Cost management and Reporting portfolio.
  • Establish engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices to ensure maintainable and scalable solutions.
  • Drive modernization efforts, technical debt reduction, platform simplification, and operational excellence.
  • Identify opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and analytics to improve platform capabilities and customer experience.
  • Provide technical leadership for emerging initiatives and proof-of-concept efforts.
  • Drive engineering efficiency through automation and adoption of modern development practices.
  • Champion high-quality software engineering practices including testing, observability, security, automation, and CI/CD.
  • Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Mentor and coach engineers across the organization.
  • Lead design reviews and foster a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
  • Expertise in cloud-native application development and distributed systems.
  • Strong experience with AWS and familiarity with Azure, GCP, or OCI.
  • Experience designing APIs, data pipelines, and scalable reporting or analytics solutions.
  • Strong understanding of software architecture, security, CI/CD, and observability practices.
  • Strong understanding of data modeling.
  • Proven ability to lead large initiatives across multiple teams.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with FinOps, cloud cost management, forecasting, budgeting, or chargeback/showback solutions.
  • Experience with AI/LLM platforms, cost reporting, and AI governance.
  • Experience with Power BI, Snowflake, data warehousing, or enterprise reporting platforms.
  • Experience leading platform modernization and cloud optimization initiatives.
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and shaping technical strategy.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute.

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