Thomson Reuters
Lead Platform Engineer
$118K–$220K
United States of America, Eagan, Minnesota +2 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- United States of America, Eagan, Minnesota
United States of America, Frisco, Texas
Canada, Toronto, Ontario - Experience
- Approximately 7+ years of professional software engineering experience; 1–2 years in a lead capacity.
About the job
Leads the design and operation of backend and cloud platform systems that support CoCounsel’s AI agent workflows, with a focus on reliability, scalability, deployment, and developer tooling.
What you'll do
- Architect and deliver backend and platform services across microservices and event-driven systems; own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and progressive delivery.
- Lead cross-functional technical initiatives and improve production reliability, observability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Mentor engineers, guide technical direction, and participate in on-call support for customer-facing systems and internal tooling.
What they ask for
- Strong proficiency in Python (FastAPI or similar) or another backend language, with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native application experience.
- Hands-on experience with relational databases, caching or messaging technologies, API design, AWS, and Kubernetes.
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, and progressive delivery or release engineering.
- Experience with production observability and troubleshooting, plus supporting or integrating AI/LLM-powered systems.
Pay
$118,400 USD - $219,800 USD (base salary); $140,600 CAD - $190,600 CAD (base salary)
Tools
Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Kubernetes (EKS), OpenTelemetry
AI focus
Builds and operates platform services for AI agent workflows, including integration with managed AI runtimes and AI/LLM systems such as agent runtimes, LLM gateways, and RAG architectures.
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