Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platforms

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It's why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It's why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it's why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it's worth paying for. 

The New York Times is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join DevEx Platforms team. The Developer Platforms organization provides cloud infrastructure and tooling to over 60 teams and 450+ engineers in NYT Product Engineering via an internal developer platform.

The DevEx Platforms team consists of 5 engineers of different levels who deeply care about other engineers' experiences. We design and build UX for NYT's internal developer platform. We collaborate with NYT product and platform engineering teams and build products for them to support development. You will have a focus on created GenAI-augmented developer experiences.

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role. Work from home up to 3 days a week.

Responsibilities:

• You will explore and build tools to support our product engineers with GenAI-augmented developer experiences, in collaboration with product managers and internal AI community.
• You will contribute to our internal development platform.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
• You will report to the Engineering Manager of the DevEx Platforms team

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience improving developer experience through workflows, documentation, and capabilities of the internal platform.
• Experience designing and building cloud native applications using Golang
• Hands-on experience building software using GenAI tools, like GitHub's Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code.

• 3+ years of hands on experience managing and deploying resources in AWS.
• 2+ years of experience managing workloads deployed on Kubernetes.
• Experience in prompt engineering or building AI-powered tools.

This role requires limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$140,000 - $160,000 USD

For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include 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. 

For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.

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