Engineering Manager, Community Platforms

New York Times; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Community team within the News Product mission. This hybrid role is based in New York City, with an expectation to come into the office about 2 days per week.

You will guide a team building the end‑to‑end reader engagement experiences, including comments and conversations on web and native apps, while upholding standards for trust, safety, and performance.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager leading high‑functioning engineering teams.
• Experience managing cross‑disciplinary engineers and overseeing mission‑critical production operations for user‑facing systems.
• Senior or staff‑level engineer background building and operating backend services or native app features in production.
• Experience collaborating with product, design and data partners on roadmap planning and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross‑platform team of engineers working across backend services, web and native clients that power comments and reader engagement experiences.
• Guide technical vision and roadmap for expanding Community features beyond traditional comments into new formats and surfaces.
• Oversee development of high‑availability backend services and internal tools used by moderators, editors and product teams.
• Ensure reliability, performance and safety of Community systems including incident response and post‑incident reviews.
• Partner with Product, Design and Data to prioritize investments balancing immediate needs with platform modernization.
• Contribute to broader News Product mission by leading cross‑team technical or cultural programs.

Skills

Engineering Management

Cross-disciplinary teams

Production operations

Roadmap planning

Tools

React

Node.js

Golang

AWS

GCP

Job description

The New York Times is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Community team within the News Product mission. This hybrid role is based in New York City, with an expectation to come into the office about 2 days per week.

You will guide a team building the end‑to‑end reader engagement experiences, including comments and conversations on web and native apps, while upholding standards for trust, safety, and performance.