Staff Platform Engineer - Materia AI

About the role

In this opportunity as a Staff Platform Engineer- Materia AI you will:

• Innovate with Startup Speed and Enterprise Scale: Be part of a team that maintains the innovation velocity of a startup while leveraging the operational maturity of a global enterprise.
• Deliver AI-Driven Systems: Launch backend services into production that power generative AI agents and orchestration systems.
• Collaborate Across Functions: Work closely with AI/ML engineers, frontend developers, product managers, and SREs to build robust services and developer experiences.
• Help to build out AI native products for tax, accounting, and audit professionals.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and manage reference CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Playwright, and Snyk.

Develop Go command-line tools and services that streamline and empower developer workflows, from local development to production deployment.

Establish, measure, and continuously improve DORA metrics, for example deployment frequency, change failure rate to optimize the velocity and quality of product delivery.

Lead the design and implementation of scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective production infrastructure using Kubernetes, Vercel, AWS, GCP, and AI platforms.

Establish and enforce platform security best practices using multi-cloud strategies and open-source CNCF solutions, integrating with cloud-native security tools and Thomson Reuters internal infrastructure.

Design and implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using tools such as DataDog and LLM observability tools.

Set up the necessary processes and documentation to support a team of 150+ product managers, researchers, and engineers.

Align with product, development, and operations teams on business objectives.

Foster a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement, exploring new AI technologies and methodologies.

Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in cloud computing, platform engineering, and site reliability engineering, advocating for their adoption where appropriate.

Requirements

Experience: 8+ years of experience in backend development, platform engineering, production engineering, or site reliability engineering (SRE).

Software Development: Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining a backend service and associated client interface for the benefit of other product and engineering staff developing products for customers.

Problem Solving: Deep experience troubleshooting low level DNS, TCP, IP, and TLS protocols.

Creative problem solver who enjoys exploring new technologies.

Cloud-Native Expertise: Extensive hands-on experience with cloud-native services, including deep proficiency with container registries, orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS), object storage (buckets), managed PostgreSQL, serverless functions, networking (VPCs/service mesh), identity and access management, infrastructure-as-code, secrets management, and pub/sub messaging systems.

Communication: Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Curiosity: Eager to explore and understand emerging agentic software paradigms.

Quality: Dedicated to building high-quality, reliable platform systems.

Adaptability: Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.

Fluent in Go, Python, Rust, or another systems level language.

Experience with configuration management tools such as Terraform and CUE.

Experience with AI-driven systems, agent-based architectures, LLM evaluation tools, and AI APIs from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Experience owning SOC 2 compliant systems end to end.

Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, or search-based AI.

Strong opinions on infrastructure design, end to end testing strategies, automation, middleware, and RPC/REST API designs patterns.

Skills

Experience with cloud-native services, including container registries, orchestration, object storage, managed PostgreSQL, serverless functions, networking, identity and access management, infrastructure-as-code, secrets management, and pub/sub messaging systems.

Experience with configuration management tools such as Terraform and CUE.

Experience with AI-driven systems, agent-based architectures, LLM evaluation tools, and AI APIs from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Experience with vector databases, embeddings, or search-based AI.

Experience with infrastructure design, end to end testing strategies, automation, middleware, and RPC/REST API designs patterns.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) 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, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset.

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. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

The posting is for proactive recruitment purposes and may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies within our organization.