Content Data Platform Engineer (AI/ML)

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

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Content Data Products team in New York City. You will collaborate with product, design, data scientists, newsroom, and other engineers to turn NYT's archive of publishing content into data products and APIs.

You will own features from requirements through design, implementation, QA, deployment, and monitoring, with a emphasis on security, observability, and high-concurrency data systems.

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.
• Experience with data feeds development.
• Experience with CI/CD concepts and tooling.
• Experience with infrastructure orchestration and cloud 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

Skills

Go

Python

Java

SQL

CI/CD

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

Job description

The New York Times is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Content Data Products team in New York City. You will collaborate with product, design, data scientists, newsroom, and other engineers to turn NYT's archive of publishing content into data products and APIs.

You will own features from requirements through design, implementation, QA, deployment, and monitoring, with a emphasis on security, observability, and high-concurrency data systems.