Senior Software Engineering Manager

New York Post · New York, NY · 3 wk ago

EngineeringFull-time

About the role

The New York Post is one of America’s most iconic and recognizable news brands, delivering bold headlines, unforgettable scoops, and sharp commentary since 1801. Today, the New York Post Digital Network reaches over 80 million unique users each month across NYPost.com, PageSix.com, and Decider.com, covering breaking news, sports, entertainment, pop culture, and lifestyle with a distinctly New York attitude.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead the systems that power The Post’s digital future. This hands-on role focuses on infrastructure services, data pipelines, personalization systems, consumer AI, internal AI tooling, and custom APIs across AWS and GCP projects. You’ll own the plumbing that enables our newsroom, data science, marketing, and product teams to deliver cutting-edge digital experiences at scale.

Responsibilities

Manage and support a small team of high-achieving agile software and data engineers.
Design, build, and operate cloud-based APIs supporting consumer websites and native mobile apps using technologies like Vertex AI, Lambdas, DynamoDB, Cloud Functions, S3, Kubernetes, Glue, and BigQuery.
Troubleshoot issues from JavaScript in the browser down through DNS, networking, applications, containers, serverless services, and dependent service tiers.
Own data ingestion pipelines for real-time and batch processing of large-scale content and event data.
Implement and scale custom APIs to support editorial workflows, AI, personalization, analytics, and user-facing applications.
Own the team’s codebases, pull requests, testing, maintenance, and release process.
Partner with product, editorial, and data science teams to deliver infrastructure and services that meet business needs.
Monitor, optimize, and improve the reliability, security, and cost efficiency of cloud-based systems.
Communicate and present technical vision to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Organize architecture discussions and run or supervise agile sprint ceremonies.

Requirements

MS or BS in computer science or related field.
10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
5+ years of experience leading engineering teams.
Proficiency in modern programming languages and frameworks such as Python, Node.js, or Go.
Solid familiarity with AWS and/or GCP services.
Robust experience with REST and GraphQL APIs, authentication/authorization, and API best practices.
Firm grasp of tools including AI tools, IDEs, Git, JIRA, and agile methodologies.
Comfort with code reviews, unit tests, QA and UAT processes, and end-to-end testing frameworks.
Strong troubleshooting skills and attention to detail.
Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Nice-to-have experience

Content-management systems, media, news, publishing, video technology, ad technology, or high-traffic consumer-facing industries.
Generative-AI models, LLM prompting, and/or machine learning.
Personalization and recommendation systems.
Data pipelines (e.g., Airflow, Dataflow, Glue).
Linux administration, shell scripting, ssh, crontabs.
Monitoring, logging, dashboard, and alarming tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk).
Data warehouse technologies (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift).
CI/CD workflows and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

Schedule

This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in the office.

Pay

Base pay range: $160,000 – $175,000 plus bonus. The range reflects our good faith estimate and may vary based on experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Bonus targets are determined based on market benchmarks and individual contributions.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.