Senior Engineer - Web Platforms New New York, NY

The New York Times Company; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Stock options

Medical, dental and vision benefits

401(k) company match

Paid vacation

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development programs

Job summary

The New York Times Company in New York, NY is seeking an engineer to develop our platform with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance as it grows. You will promote high-quality releases for user experience and web performance, collaborate to shape priorities and long-term roadmaps, and provide feedback through design reviews and pair programming.

We value journalistic independence and commitment to truth, with hybrid remote/in-office flexibility and opportunities to work with

Qualifications

• Experience building centralized systems for internal engineering teams.
• Automation for code quality, release management, and developer workflow improvements.
• Experience designing, implementing, testing and documenting projects.
• Experience with GenAI tooling such as skills creation or agentic workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub actions).

Responsibilities

• Develop our platform while ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance as it grows.
• Promote high-quality releases regarding user experience and web performance.
• Collaborate with the team to shape our priorities and long-term roadmap.
• Deliver clear feedback through pairing, design review, and code reviews.
• Support on-call, incident response, and troubleshooting efforts for platform-level escalations.
• Partner with teams by participating in technical discussions, writing technical documentation, and troubleshooting issues.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Skills

CI/CD tooling

GenAI tooling

GraphQL

Platform experience

Code reviews

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

About the Role, Mission or Department Overview

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It's why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It's why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it's why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it's worth paying for.

Responsibilities

Develop our platform while ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance as it grows.

Promote high-quality releases regarding user experience and web performance.

Collaborate with the team to shape our priorities and long-term roadmap.

Deliver clear feedback through pairing, design review, and code reviews.

Support on-call, incident response, and troubleshooting efforts for platform-level escalations.

Partner with teams by participating in technical discussions, writing technical documentation, and troubleshooting issues.

Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications

Experience building centralized systems for internal engineering teams.

Familiarity with automation for code quality, release management, and developer workflow improvements.

Experience designing, implementing, testing and documenting projects.

Experience with GenAI tooling such as skills creation or agentic workflows.

Experience with CI/CD tools (we use GitHub actions).

Experience leading complex initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using client-side GraphQL tooling and applying GraphQL best practices, including data fetching, caching, error handling, and performance optimization.
• Experience working on a platform team, building and supporting shared tools, frameworks, or services used by multiple product teams.

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.

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Compensation and Benefits For This Role

• In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock.
• medical, dental and vision benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
• a company-matching 401(k) plan
• employee stock purchase plan
• paid vacation
• paid sick days
• paid parental leave
• tuition reimbursement
• professional development programs

The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$140,000 - $160,000 USD

Candidate Use of GenAI Tools

We're excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.

If you're an engineering candidate, we'll let you know what specific GenAI tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.

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 availablehere .

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.