Senior Marketing Systems Engineer: AI & Orchestration

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

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Engineer, Marketing, to join the Marketing team and provide technical leadership for the campaign lifecycle system, integrations, internal tools, and AI-enabled workflows. You will work on end-to-end design, implementation, and management, reporting to the Director, Advertising Systems.

Responsibilities include building orchestration backbone, data pipelines, APIs, and AI-powered flows, while ensuring reliability and insights for data-driven decision-making

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on backend or distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python or TypeScript/Node.js and 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 approved GenAI tools.
• 1+ years of experience delivering production systems on cloud platforms (AWS preferred) with serverless and CI/CD.
• 3+ years of experience working with marketing and performance data and supporting experimentation and analytics workflows.

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.
• Collaborate with Marketing partners as a technical advisor translating needs into designs.
• Integrate AI agents and automations into Marketing workflows following GenAI guidance.
• Design and operate data pipelines and models ingesting marketing data for analytics.
• Provide APIs and abstractions enabling AI systems and users to create insights and recommendations.
• Lead reliability, observability, and incident response for integrations and data pipelines.
• Support journalistic independence and uphold NYT mission.

Skills

Backend development

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

REST/GraphQL

AWS

CI/CD

Data pipelines

LLMs

Observability

Data modeling

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Notion/Monday.com/Asana

BigQuery

DataDog

React

Job description

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Engineer, Marketing, to join the Marketing team and provide technical leadership for the campaign lifecycle system, integrations, internal tools, and AI-enabled workflows. You will work on end-to-end design, implementation, and management, reporting to the Director, Advertising Systems.

Responsibilities include building orchestration backbone, data pipelines, APIs, and AI-powered flows, while ensuring reliability and insights for data-driven decision-making