Senior Marketing Platform Engineer - AI Orchestration

The New York Times; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid vacation

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Engineer, Marketing, to join the Marketing team. You will lead the design, implementation, and management of the marketing campaign lifecycle system, integrations, internal tools, and learning/experimentation infrastructure. You will report to our Director, Advertising Systems.

You will work with Marketing partners as a technical advisor and integrate AI agents and automations into workflows, while ensuring reliable data pipelines and analytics capabilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience focusing on backend or full-stack development for distributed systems and APIs.
• Proficiency in Python or TypeScript/Node.js with experience building integrations, services, data pipelines, and internal tools.
• 5+ years of experience with REST/GraphQL APIs, OAuth2, webhooks, and event-driven patterns.
• Hands-on experience building applications with large language models (LLMs) using GenAI tools.
• 1+ years of production systems on AWS and serverless services, CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality, secure, and well-tested code for Marketing infrastructure, data models, and tools.
• Build the campaign lifecycle orchestration backbone.
• Create integrations and internal tools connecting PM, collaboration, creative, media, and email platforms.
• Translate marketing needs into technical designs as a technical advisor.
• Integrate AI agents and automations into Marketing workflows per GenAI guidance.
• Design data pipelines and models ingesting marketing data for experimentation and analytics.
• Deliver APIs and abstractions for AI systems to generate insights and recommendations from data.
• Lead reliability, observability, and incident response for integrations and pipelines.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

APIs

LLMs

AWS cloud

Tools

Terraform

Docker

DataDog

BigQuery

Mode

Job description

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Engineer, Marketing, to join the Marketing team. You will lead the design, implementation, and management of the marketing campaign lifecycle system, integrations, internal tools, and learning/experimentation infrastructure. You will report to our Director, Advertising Systems.

You will work with Marketing partners as a technical advisor and integrate AI agents and automations into workflows, while ensuring reliable data pipelines and analytics capabilities.