Senior Engineer, Developer Platforms and Generative AI

Thenewyorktimes; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Thenewyorktimes is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Developer Platforms team in New York City. This role involves building GenAI-augmented developer experiences and enhancing platform capabilities across the organization. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of experience in software engineering, with proficiency in Golang and GenAI tools.

The position emphasizes improving developer workflows and supports an engaging work environment with various benefits, including medical coverage and a competitive salary between $140,000 and $160,000 USD annually.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years improving developer experience through workflows.
• Experience designing and building cloud native applications using Golang.

Responsibilities

• Design and build GenAI-powered developer tooling.
• Build and run the GenAI developer platform.
• Own guardrails and observability for agentic workflows.
• Work closely with engineers to design fitting solutions.
• Support mission and values, keeping ethics central.

Skills

Professional software engineering experience

Improving developer experience

Golang

GenAI tools (e.g., GitHub's Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code)

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

About the Team

Developer Platforms organization provides cloud infrastructure and tooling to 100+ teams and 750+ engineers in NYT Product Engineering through an internal developer platform. The DevEx Platforms team (6 engineers) focuses on developer experience and workflow automation. We’re now expanding into AI‑assisted developer workflows using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot to support debugging, migrations, test generation, and everyday development in a safe, measurable way. This role sits in Developer Platforms and reports to the Engineering Manager of the DevEx Platforms team.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on DevEx Platforms, you’ll build GenAI-augmented developer experiences and platform capabilities used across all of The New York Times. Your work will help teams ship faster and more safely, pay down technical debt through structured migrations and platform modernization, and turn effective internal practices into reusable tools and agents.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build GenAI-powered developer tooling: prompts, IDE integrations, Cursor/Claude rules, and telemetry to understand how they’re used.
• Build and run the GenAI developer platform: Tools, services, and integrations leveraging LiteLLM to power both local and background/long-running agents, providing auth, configuration, and LLM routing.
• Own guardrails and observability for agentic workflows: integrate with Datadog, DX, and FinOut, define sensible standards, and make sure agents interact with Jira, GitHub, and internal platforms in a safe, auditable way.
• Work closely with engineers and managers across Product Engineering to understand how they build software today and to design solutions that actually fit the way they work.
• Support our mission and values, including journalistic independence, and keep ethics and safety central to how we use AI in developer workflows.
• This role includes limited on‑call responsibilities; the schedule will be set when you join.
• You will report to the Engineering Manager of the DevEx Platforms team.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience improving developer experience through workflows, documentation, and capabilities of the internal platform.
• Experience designing and building cloud native applications using Golang
• Hands‑on experience building software using GenAI tools, like GitHub's Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands‑on experience managing and deploying resources in AWS.
• 2+ years of experience managing workloads deployed on Kubernetes.
• Experience in prompt engineering or building AI-powered tools.

The annual base pay range for this role is between $140,000 and $160,000 USD. 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.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does 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. 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.