Senior Software Engineer, Privacy & Governance Services

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) matching

Paid vacation and parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in New York to build privacy and governance systems. This hybrid role involves developing production services and tooling that ensure responsible data use across the organization.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience, particularly with APIs and cloud infrastructure. You will lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and embrace the mission of journalistic independence.

Annual base salary ranges from $140,000 to $160,000, with additional benefits including bonuses and stock options.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure including AWS or GCP.
• Familiarity with data systems like DynamoDB or BigQuery.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate production services and APIs for privacy and governance.
• Build self-service tooling—SDKs, APIs, and platform integrations.
• Lead technical design reviews and mentor other engineers.

Skills

Software engineering

API development

Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP)

Data systems (DynamoDB, BigQuery)

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Privacy & Governance Services

New York, NY

About the Role

The Data Platform mission builds the foundational systems that power data at The New York Times. The Privacy & Governance Services team builds the tooling that makes responsible data use the default. This tooling includes services that classify data, manage access, handle retention and deletion, and give engineering teams across the company a simple, reliable way to do the right thing with sensitive data. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop these systems. This is a hands‑on engineering role: you’ll set technical direction and support the engineers around you.

This is a hybrid role reporting to the Engineering Manager within the Data Platforms mission.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate production services and APIs that other engineering teams depend on for privacy and governance capabilities.
• Build self‑service tooling—SDKs, APIs, and platform integrations—to make privacy and governance controls easy for product and data teams.
• Develop systems for data subject request handling, data classification, access management, data retention and deletion, and consent/age‑signal handling at scale.
• Encode our accountability model and governance scorecards into automated rules, workflows, and scorecard services that run on the data platform.
• Own services through their full lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and on‑call.
• Lead technical design reviews, mentor engineers, and drive engineering standards within the team.
• Partner with product, legal, privacy, governance, and other Data Platform teams to turn requirements into reliable, well‑architected systems.
• 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

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Experience building services and APIs at scale.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS or GCP) and modern deployment practices (containers, CI/CD, observability).
• Experience working with data systems (e.g., DynamoDB or other NoSQL stores, data warehouses like BigQuery, or similar).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with privacy, security, or governance domains such as access control, encryption, anonymization, audit logging, or data lifecycle management.
• Experience building developer‑facing tooling or platforms that other teams adopt.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading the technical direction of a team or project.
• Exposure to working with mobile or native apps.

The annual base pay range for this role is between $140,000 and $160,000 USD. For roles in the U.S., 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.

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.