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Staff Software Engineer Search Platform, Ingestion & IndexingThomson Reuters • Saint Paul, Illinois, United States
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Staff Software Engineer Search Platform, Ingestion & Indexing

Thomson Reuters
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    Saint Paul, Illinois, United States
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    Saint Paul, Illinois, United States
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Staff Software Engineer Advanced Content Engineering (ACE) is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve as the technical anchor for the search platform's ingestion and indexing systems. The platform processes millions of documents across TR's legal, tax, and professional content corpora parsing, chunking, enriching, embedding, and indexing them into a hybrid search engine that powers both human-facing search interfaces and autonomous AI agents. Getting this pipeline right, at scale, with zero-downtime operations and increasingly agentic retrieval patterns, is one of the platform's most consequential engineering challenges. This role owns the design, implementation, and operational health of the document ingestion pipeline and search index management systems from the Kafka-based streaming infrastructure that moves documents through processing stages, to the Vespa application architecture that stores and serves them. Staff Engineers on this team define, build, test, deploy, scale, and operate what they ship full-stack ownership is not a principle we aspire to, it is the daily reality. AI-assisted development is the team norm, not the exception, and constant delivery to production is the expectation. This is a role for someone who sets architectural boundaries, not just executes within them About the Role In this position, you will focus on: Ingestion Pipeline Architecture & Engineering
Plan, design, develop, and own the end-to-end document ingestion pipeline a Kafka-based stream processing architecture that moves documents through parsing, chunking, enrichment (entity extraction, embedding generation, metadata enrichment), and indexing stages including all fault tolerance, version ordering, and at-least-once delivery guarantees
Architect and implement pluggable, configurable pipeline components (parsers, chunkers, enrichers, indexers) that client teams can assemble into custom topologies via the platform's self-service APIs, while maintaining reliable, observable, and performant execution
Own the platform's Protobuf-based document schema and schema registry integration establishing schema governance standards, enforcing backward-compatible evolution, and ensuring reliable serialization across all pipeline stages
Design and implement dual-flow ingestion: a high-throughput batch path for full reindexing and a low-latency incremental path for real-time document updates, with strong guarantees around document version ordering and idempotent processing
Lead the migration of ingestion infrastructure from OpenSearch to Vespa, including design of Vespa document processors, custom Kafka feeders, and application package architecture resolving complex technical challenges that have little or no precedent within the team Custom Model Operationalization
Own the end-to-end lifecycle for custom models integrated into the ingestion pipeline re-ranking models, embedding models, and enrichment components including inference serving behind a stable API surface, latency SLO management, hardware and runtime configuration (batching, quantization), and scaling
Build and operate the model promotion pipeline: the CI/CD workflow that moves a model artifact from the fine-tuning team through staging to production, including versioning, canary rollouts, and rollback mechanisms ensuring the platform team can operate model updates independently without depending on the research team for production changes
Define and maintain integration contracts between custom models and downstream pipeline components governing input/output schemas, compatibility requirements, and the governance process for model updates that ensures search pipeline consumers are not broken by changes upstream
Instrument model serving for production observability: latency distributions, throughput, error rates, and quality signals such as re-ranking score distributions enabling the team to detect regressions or model drift without requiring the fine-tuning team's involvement Search Engine & Index Management
Own the search engine layer end-to-end: design and operate Vespa (and OpenSearch during transition) index configurations, ranking profiles, schema definitions, and application package lifecycle management applying architectural principles that scale to the platform's long-term content and tenancy goals
Build and operate zero-downtime index management: shadow indexing, blue/green index promotion, and rolling reindex workflows that keep the platform available during major infrastructure changes
Implement and maintain the Component Registry and Index Registry the platform's catalog of reusable processing components and active index configurations with a focus on correctness, observability, and safe concurrent modification
Develop the full-reindex and incremental-update orchestration logic, including change detection, document tracking, Kafka topic management, and DynamoDB-backed state management Agentic Search Infrastructure
Design ingestion and indexing infrastructure with agentic retrieval patterns as a first-class concern including explicit latency budgets per retrieval hop, chunking and result compression strategies optimized for token economy in context windows, and index boundary definitions that give agents clean, predictable tool contracts
Build trace-level observability into the retrieval stack that captures which tools were called, in what order, and with what inputs enabling reliable diagnosis and reproduction of failures in non-deterministic agentic retrieval paths
Design session state and cache invalidation patterns for multi-turn agentic search: reasoning carefully about cache validity windows, session state scope (per-user, per-session, per-query), and mechanisms to prevent stale context from corrupting downstream agent responses Evaluation & Search Quality
Build and own the integration between the ingestion pipeline and the platform's offline evaluation framework ensuring that experiment runs produce query/result outputs that feed seamlessly into the search grading tool, supporting gold test set maintenance, LLM-as-judge evaluation, and side-by-side ranking comparison across pipeline versions
Instrument the query and retrieval stack for online analytics: real-time query latency and throughput monitoring, query log collection for session analysis, and the infrastructure to support A/B and interleaved ranking experiments in production generating the signals that connect low-level search metrics to downstream product KPIs
Partner with TR Labs and research scientists to ensure that new search components can be evaluated in isolation with automated offline evaluation on every build and a clear path from evaluation results to production promotion decisions Reliability & Operational Ownership
Take full operational responsibility for ingestion and indexing infrastructure: define SLOs, set measurable goals and meet them, build and maintain CloudWatch dashboards and alarms, and participate in on-call rotations you built it, you own it, you run it
Treat delivery friction as the enemy: identify and remove obstacles that slow the team's ability to ship ingestion and indexing changes to production safely and frequently improving CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and local development workflows as a standing priority
Instrument pipeline components with distributed tracing, structured logging, and rich metrics establishing documentation standards and knowledge management practices so that the team and platform consumers can understand system behavior at all times
Design and implement resilient fault tolerance mechanisms dead-letter queues, retry strategies with exponential backoff, circuit breakers, consumer lag monitoring that make the pipeline robust to downstream failures and transient errors
Drive system-level performance architecture: profiling ingestion throughput and indexing latency, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing optimizations that meet platform SLOs under peak load Technical Leadership
Serve as the team's deepest technical authority on document processing pipelines and search engine internals guiding architectural decisions, resolving technical ambiguity, and establishing cross-system design patterns that raise the quality bar across the team
Lead significant projects and initiatives that span multiple engineers and interact with other teams; determine work priorities based on strategic direction; recommend modifications to team operations and make needed adjustments to short-term priorities while maintaining strategic focus
Mentor and develop Senior and mid-level engineers providing coaching, technical direction, and educational opportunities in modern distributed systems, stream processing, search infrastructure, and AI-assisted development practices
Collaborate closely with TR Labs and research scientists to integrate new chunking strategies, embedding models, and enrichment techniques into the pipeline in a safe, well-instrumented, and ethically responsible way
Deliver effective presentations on complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders; develop strategic plans for technology implementation that align with business objectives About You You're an ideal fit if you have: Required Experience
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
8+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated progression to staff-level or equivalent technical leadership including ownership of a functional area and leadership of significant cross-functional projects
Deep expertise in distributed stream processing: designing, building, and operating high-throughput, fault-tolerant event-driven pipelines using Kafka or equivalent technologies at production scale
Production experience with Vespa, OpenSearch, or Elasticsearch including schema design, ranking profile configuration, and end-to-end
  • Saint Paul, Illinois, United States

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