AI-Driven Content Data Platforms Engineer

Thenewyorktimes; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Company 401(k) plan with match

Paid vacation and sick days

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement and professional

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Content Data Products team in New York City. You will report to an engineering manager and collaborate with product, design, newsroom, data scientists, and other partners to convert NYT's publishing content into data products and APIs.

This hybrid role requires building scalable data backends, applying AI to process archives, and ensuring security and observability of services. Expect to come into the office 2 days per week.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering experience.
• Fluency in backend technologies (Go, Python, Java or similar) and SQL databases.
• Experience designing and building data backend services and APIs that other teams can build on.
• Experience with data feeds development.
• Experience with CI/CD concepts and tooling.
• Experience with infrastructure orchestration and familiarity with cloud computing platforms like GCP or AWS.
• Understanding of application and data security best practices.
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively as a part of a cross‑functional team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, design, other engineers, and newsroom partners to build content data products and APIs within the NYT's publishing platform, including internal data solutions and external offerings
• Take ownership of features or components, driving them from requirements gathering through design, implementation, QA, deployment, and monitoring
• Use AI to process our archive and turn unstructured data into structured data, while developing a deep understanding of what we're building and how to use it
• Ensure a high degree of code quality, security, and system observability
• Drive architectural excellence by establishing best practices for high concurrency, data-intensive systems
• Champion a "quality-first" culture by architecting automated testing frameworks that ensure service reliability at scale
• 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.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

SQL

CI/CD

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

Security best practices

Cross-functional collaboration

Data backend services

Job description

The New York Times is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Content Data Products team in New York City. You will report to an engineering manager and collaborate with product, design, newsroom, data scientists, and other partners to convert NYT's publishing content into data products and APIs.

This hybrid role requires building scalable data backends, applying AI to process archives, and ensuring security and observability of services. Expect to come into the office 2 days per week.