Engineering Manager, Content Data Products

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

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Content Data Products team in a hybrid role based in New York City. You will manage 6–9 backend engineers and collaborate with product, data science, and newsroom partners to turn NYT content into data products.

You will shape technical strategy, define roadmaps, and ensure high availability and scalable data delivery. Strong leadership and cloud expertise, especially AWS, are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in engineering management or people leadership.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a software engineer.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in delivering enterprise-scale software projects.
• Experience hiring, developing and retaining software engineers.
• Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS preferred).

Responsibilities

• Develop the Team: Manage a team of 6–9 backend engineers.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, engineering excellence, and psychological safety.
• Oversee Technical Strategy: Guide architecture and technology decisions for data delivery and warehousing pipelines.
• Build and Deliver: Define roadmaps, plan sprints, and deliver impactful projects aligned with broader goals.
• Ensure Operational Excellence: Lead reliability, scalability, and performance of services; champion monitoring and on-call practices.
• Collaborate Across Boundaries: Coordinate with other teams and organizations; communicate challenges and risks.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of journalistic independence and NYT’s mission.

Skills

Engineering management

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

People development

Job description

About the Role

The New York Times is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Content Data Products team. You will report to an Engineering Director and manage a team of engineers who partner with product and project managers, data scientists, newsroom along with other partners. This team builds systems that turn NYT's archive of publishing content into data products. Our teams and external partners will use these tools to obtain insights and build experiences based on NYT content.

This team sits within the Publishing group at the New York Times, which is responsible for the content management system for all of the Times. It empowers development teams to build and evolve experiences with speed and quality. This provides editors and creators with a unified and interconnected suite of tools they can use with confidence. The goal is to make the world's best journalism.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters. You can typically expect to come into the office 2 days/week.

Responsibilities

• Develop the Team: Manage a team of 6–9 backend engineers.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, engineering excellence, and psychological safety.
• Oversee Technical Strategy: Guide the team in developing high-throughput, low-latency services and pipelines for data delivery and warehousing. Guide decisions on architecture and technology selection
• Build and Deliver: Collaborate with different teams to define roadmaps, plan sprints, and deliver impactful projects. Ensure the team's work is aligned with broader goals.
• Ensure Operational Excellence: Lead the reliability, scalability, and performance of the team's services. Champion monitoring, alerting, and on-call practices to maintain high availability for our critical systems.
• Collaborate Across Boundaries: Build relationships and coordinate projects across other teams and organizations to ensure successful outcomes. Represent the team in technical discussions and communicate technical challenges and risks.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in an engineering management or people leadership role
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience as a software engineer
• Demonstrated technical leadership in the delivery of enterprise‑scale software projects
• Experience hiring, developing and retaining software engineers
• Familiarity with cloud‑based infrastructure (AWS preferred)

Preferred Qualifications

• Leadership & Delegation: Experience developing new talent and delegating complex projects to empower engineers to grow into technical owners
• Technical Expertise: Experience with Golang, Python, Java or similar within event‑driven architectures, and distributed systems at scale such as Spark or Flink
• Data Expertise: Experience working with large‑scale data storage and analysis tools such as Postgres, S3, Glue, and Athena
• Collaboration: Experience working on projects with non‑engineering partners (e.g., Data Science, Legal, External Partnerships)

Compensation and Benefits

Annual base pay range: $152,000 — $190,000 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer and Accessibility

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s Know Your Rights Poster is available here.

The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email [e-mail]. Emails sent for unrelated issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

The Company encourages those with criminal histories to apply, and will consider their applications in a manner consistent with applicable "Fair Chance" laws, including but not limited to the NYC Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.