Senior Software Engineer – Cloud & DevOps

Job Description

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer with strong Cloud and DevOps engineering expertise to design, build, deploy, and operate scalable cloud-native backend services and the delivery infrastructure that supports them.

This role combines strong Java and Spring Boot software development with hands-on ownership of AWS infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, observability, and production operations. We are specifically looking for an engineer who has personally worked across the full software delivery lifecycle rather than focusing only on application development.

You will work with Product, Architecture, Security, DevOps, and engineering teams to improve application reliability, deployment velocity, operational maturity, and developer experience.

The role is based in Toronto and follows a hybrid working model with three days onsite per week.

Key Skills for This Role

The strongest candidates will bring hands-on experience across the following areas:

• Java and Spring Boot
• AWS Cloud
• Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
• CI/CD and DevOps automation
• Docker and Kubernetes/EKS/ECS
• Production monitoring, observability, and incident response
• PostgreSQL and distributed systems

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable backend services, REST APIs, and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, AWS, and PostgreSQL.
• Build, maintain, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines supporting automated builds, testing, security scanning, artifact management, deployment, rollback, and release promotion across environments.
• Design and automate secure, repeatable, and scalable cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CDK, or comparable technologies.
• Own technical solutions across the full software delivery lifecycle, including application development, infrastructure provisioning, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, and production support.
• Build and operate cloud-native and distributed systems using Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS/ECS, asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, caching, and resilient service-to-service communication patterns.
• Improve platform reliability and operational maturity through logging, metrics, dashboards, alerting, distributed tracing, root-cause analysis, performance analysis, capacity planning, and post-incident improvements.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, DevOps, and engineering teams to improve engineering quality through code reviews, infrastructure reviews, secure development practices, automation, mentoring, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Professional software engineering experience building, deploying, and supporting production backend applications and cloud-based systems.
• Strong hands-on experience developing production applications using Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong hands-on experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications and infrastructure on AWS.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, or similar platforms.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code, preferably using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CDK, or comparable technologies.
• Experience with containerization and cloud-native deployment using Docker and Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, or similar platforms.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, including SQL development, schema design, migrations, indexing, query optimization, and production support.
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with production monitoring, logging, alerting, troubleshooting, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Demonstrated experience owning software and operational workflows across the full lifecycle, from development through deployment and production support.
• Demonstrated ability to independently solve complex technical and operational problems while balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, cost, and delivery needs.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, dependencies, operational risks, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience contributing to engineering quality through code reviews, infrastructure reviews, technical guidance, mentoring, or knowledge sharing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Python, including automation, tooling, FastAPI, or asynchronous service and API development.
• Experience with distributed messaging and event-driven technologies such as Apache Kafka, Amazon SQS, SNS, EventBridge, or Redis.
• Experience operating Kubernetes or container platforms, including deployment strategies, ingress, networking, configuration management, autoscaling, and workload troubleshooting.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including code scanning, dependency scanning, container scanning, secrets management, identity and access management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience with observability platforms and practices including application logging, metrics, monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, dashboards, and service-level indicators.
• Experience with release engineering practices such as blue/green deployments, canary releases, feature flags, automated rollback, environment promotion, and change management.
• Experience with performance engineering, including load testing, profiling, capacity planning, scalability testing, cost optimization, and bottleneck analysis.
• Experience evaluating or using AI-assisted engineering tools to improve software development, infrastructure automation, or operational workflows.

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

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, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• 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. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• 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. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• 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.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out, our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role, and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool, but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $105,000 CAD - $155,000 CAD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

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