GraphQL Platform Engineer – NYC Hybrid

The New York Times Company; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Company-matching 401(k)

Stock purchase plan

Paid vacation and sick days

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement and professional

Job summary

The New York Times Company seeks a GraphQL and Developer Experience enthusiast to join our Samizdat team and help scale a mission-critical distributed platform. You will shape GraphQL schema design, governance, and tooling while mentoring others and supporting on-call work.

This hybrid NYC-based role reports to a Senior Software Engineering Manager. With 5+ years in API development and Go experience, you will optimize performance, implement federation concepts, and improve developer workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience with a focus on API development.
• Expertise developing and scaling GraphQL APIs in production, with federation principles.
• Background includes at least one statically typed backend language (Go).
• Familiar with automation for code quality, release management, and developer workflow improvements.
• Experience delivering projects from design to implementation, testing and documentation.
• Values learning, sharing knowledge, and constructive feedback.

Responsibilities

• Develop new platform offerings with reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Lead schema design and governance, participate in schema working groups, review contributions.
• Contribute to automation, developer tooling, and onboarding guides for adopters and contributors.
• Support on-call, incident response, and platform escalations.
• Mentor team members and promote technical excellence and respectful culture.
• Report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager.

Skills

5+ years software development

GraphQL APIs

Go

Code quality automation

End-to-end project delivery

Mentoring / knowledge sharing

Tools

Apollo GraphQL

Kubernetes

Job description

The New York Times Company seeks a GraphQL and Developer Experience enthusiast to join our Samizdat team and help scale a mission-critical distributed platform. You will shape GraphQL schema design, governance, and tooling while mentoring others and supporting on-call work.

This hybrid NYC-based role reports to a Senior Software Engineering Manager. With 5+ years in API development and Go experience, you will optimize performance, implement federation concepts, and improve developer workflows.