Senior Software Engineer Customer Files Orchestration

Senior Software Engineer — Customer Files Orchestration CoCounsel Legal is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and operate the Customer Files Orchestration Service – the system that makes a customer's own documents usable by CoCounsel Legal's agents. Every file a customer brings to CoCounsel passes through this team: upload, storage, extraction, embedding, and indexing, orchestrated end-to-end. You make millions of customer files available to CoCounsel. Bringing a customer's content together with Thomson Reuters' world-class proprietary content and the latest frontier models – including TR's own custom large language models – is what makes our products highly differentiated and our agent experiences genuinely grounded. This team is a critical part of what makes that combination possible. It is also, unavoidably, a hard distributed systems problem. Supporting millions of files means real engineering: dedicated workers, fair queuing so one busy customer cannot starve another, durable state, idempotent processing, and honest reasoning about consistency and delivery guarantees across systems this team does not own. The team owns what it builds, designing, implementing, testing, deploying, scaling, and operating the service end-to-end. As a Senior Software Engineer you own a meaningful part of that service outright. You are eager to ship something you're proud of and become someone the team trusts. Key responsibilities: Design & Technical Ownership Reliability & Operations Technical Leadership & Collaboration Required Qualifications: Bachelor's or master's degree – Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 5+ years building production software – With a track record of owning significant components in systems that real customers depend on. Extensive AWS and production Python experience – This is a Python service on AWS, and you should be able to move confidently through both the code and the infrastructure. Concurrency in Python, and a healthy respect for how treacherous it is – You understand the GIL and what it does and does not protect you from, you have written and debugged production asyncio code, and you have been bitten by the classics: fire-and-forget tasks that swallow their own failures, blocking work smuggled onto the event loop, semaphores and pools that quietly cap throughput far below the worker count, and background tasks racing the state they are meant to be updating. Kubernetes in production – Our workers and APIs run as pods with event-driven autoscaling (KEDA). You have tuned scalers and resource requests, and you have debugged the real failure modes. Large-scale orchestration or data pipeline experience – Systems that move large volumes of work through multiple stages across service boundaries, where retries, partial failure, and long-running steps are the normal case rather than the exception. Consistency models – You can explain where eventual consistency is safe and where it silently corrupts a user-visible outcome, and you have debugged the difference in production. Delivery guarantees – At-least-once versus exactly-once, why idempotency is usually the real answer, and what it costs to get it wrong. Queues, fair queuing, rate limiting, and backpressure – Practical, hands-on understanding, including multi-tenant fairness and noisy-neighbor isolation. API design instincts – Versioned contracts, clear ownership, backward compatibility, and treating an internal API as something other teams build on. Real operational ownership – You have carried the pager for something you built, debugged it under pressure, and come out with a fix rather than a workaround. Strong engineering fundamentals – Testing, code review, observability, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code as habits rather than obligations. Clear communication – You can write a design down, defend it, change your mind when the evidence says so, and explain the result to someone who does not share your context. Preferred Qualifications: Documents and document management systems – Extraction, OCR, format handling, very large files, and the integration surface of third-party DMS platforms. Event-driven architectures and streaming – Kafka/MSK or similar, managed queueing such as SQS, and event-driven autoscaling. Durable workflow engines – Temporal, Step Functions, or similar, with a clear view of when they are worth adopting. Retrieval, embedding, or indexing pipelines – Supporting LLM or agentic applications. Prior exposure to the legal industry – A real bonus, and a meaningful head start on understanding what our customers actually need from their documents. Team topologies – This organization uses its vocabulary natively (stream-aligned teams, platform teams, and the boundaries between them) to reason about how services and teams are shaped. 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. In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.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 any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $94,900 USD - $176,300 USD. 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 Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance Thomson Reuters