Drimva

Thomson Reuters

Senior Data Platform Engineer

$136K–$253K

United States of America, New York, New York · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026

Experience
Seven or more years of software engineering experience, including at least four years focused on data platforms, backend infrastructure, or related systems.

About the job

Designs and maintains scalable, secure infrastructure and services for processing, storing, and serving legal and financial document data.

What you'll do

  • Design and optimize large-scale document data pipelines and backend services.
  • Implement data governance, privacy, audit, and compliance controls; lead database migrations and performance improvements.
  • Support machine learning and AI teams with scalable training and inference infrastructure, and mentor engineers.

What they ask for

  • Seven or more years of software engineering experience, including at least four years focused on data platforms, backend infrastructure, or related systems.
  • Experience with distributed systems, data warehousing, or large-scale data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, or Snowflake.
  • Proficiency in at least one of Python, Java, C++, or Go; experience designing scalable APIs; and strong SQL and NoSQL database, data modeling, and query optimization knowledge.
  • Experience with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure, infrastructure-as-code practices, and data compliance, privacy regulations, or secure data handling.

Nice to have

  • Experience in legal technology, financial services, or another highly regulated industry; experience leading cross-functional initiatives and mentoring engineers.
  • Experience with real-time data processing or streaming technologies such as Kafka or Flink, or familiarity with machine learning pipelines and feature engineering platforms.

Pay

$136,000 USD - $253,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Hadoop, Spark, Snowflake, Python, Java, C++, Go, Kafka

AI focus

Partner with machine learning and AI teams to support model training and inference at scale; familiarity with machine learning pipelines and feature engineering platforms is preferred.

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