Senior Software Engineering Manager

Storyful; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

The New York Post is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead the systems powering its digital future. This hands-on role focuses on infrastructure services, data pipelines, personalization, consumer AI, and API platforms across AWS and GCP.

You will manage a team of engineers and partner with newsroom, data science, marketing, and product teams to deliver scalable digital experiences at scale.

Qualifications

• Senior software engineering leadership experience.
• Strong cloud and data infra background is required.
• Experience building scalable APIs for web/mobile platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of software and data engineers in an agile environment.
• Design, build, and operate cloud-based APIs for consumer websites and native apps.
• Collaborate across compute, query, storage, and big data services (Vertex AI, Lambdas, DynamoDB, Cloud Functions, S3, Kubernetes).

Skills

Leadership

Cloud APIs

Tools

Vertex AI

AWS Lambda

DynamoDB

Cloud Functions

S3

Kubernetes

Job description

Company Overview

The New York Post is one of America’s most iconic and recognizable news brands - delivering bold headlines, unforgettable scoops, and sharp commentary since 1801. With a legacy built on fearless journalism and a distinctly New York attitude, The Post has evolved far beyond its print roots to become a modern media powerhouse. Today, the New York Post Digital Network is one of the most influential voices in the industry, reaching over 80 million unique users each month across our expansive, ever-growing portfolio. Anchored by NYPost.com, PageSix.com, and Decider.com, our digital brands deliver must-read breaking news, sports, entertainment, pop culture, and lifestyle coverage with the same wit, edge, and energy that define The Post. With innovation at our core, we’ve built a true multi-platform ecosystem - spanning web, mobile apps, video, audio, social, print, TV, and commerce. From viral headlines and exclusive stories to original series, podcasts, and live events, we’re engaging audiences where they are - and always on the pulse of what’s next.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to join our technology team and lead the systems that power The Post’s digital future. This is a hands-on engineering role with core responsibilities around infrastructure services, data pipelines, personalization systems, consumer AI, internal AI tooling, and custom APIs across AWS and GCP projects. You are a hands-on technical leader who builds robust high-performance services for websites. You will own the plumbing that enables our newsroom, data science, marketing, and product teams to deliver cutting-edge digital experiences at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and support a small team of high-achieving agile software and data engineers.
• Design, build, and operate cloud-based APIs supporting specialized needs of our consumer websites, native mobile apps.
• Work daily with compute services, query services, storage services, and big data services with technologies like Vertex AI, Lambdas, DynamoDB, Cloud Functions, S3, Kubernetes,