Senior Software Engineer, News Product Foundations

About the role

The News Product Foundations team at the New York Times builds and maintains a flexible system of editorial, technical and data infrastructure tools to help surface the best of our journalism to readers. You'll support the programming of 1:1 personalization experiments and variants for our machine learning powered systems on the homepage, story pages, and our mobile apps.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and optimization of data and technical infrastructure that connects our machine learning platform to editorial tools and surfaces.
• Draw on your experience with Kubernetes and Kafka to build real-time systems that reflect the rapid pace of our newsroom.
• Maintain our Personalization subgraph in a federated GraphQL architecture.
• Contribute to other back-end systems that improve the quality of our product and the discoverability of our content.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
• This role may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in programming languages that are backend focused (Node / Typescript, Go, Java, Python)
• 3+ years of experience with cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform
• 2+ years of experience with data engineering in production applications (Apache Beam / Airflow, GCP Dataflow / Composer)
• 2+ years of experience with terraform to manage production infrastructure at scale

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
• A company-matching 401(k) plan
• Paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs