Senior Software Engineering Manager – AI, APIs & Cloud Infra

News Corporation; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

The New York Post is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead our technology teams in delivering scalable, high‑performance infrastructure and data services for our digital brands. You will own API design, data pipelines, personalization systems, and AI tooling across AWS and GCP, guiding a hands‑on engineering team in a fast‑paced newsroom.

This hybrid role requires strong leadership, deep experience with cloud services and modern languages, and the ability to align editorial and

Qualifications

• MS or BS in computer science, or related field.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 5+ years experience leading engineering teams.
• Agile best practices.
• Proficiency in modern programming languages and frameworks such as Python, Node.js, or Go.
• Solid familiarity of common AWS and/or GCP services.
• Robust experience with REST and GraphQL APIs, authentication/authorization, and API best practices.
• Familiarity with AI tools, IDEs, Git, JIRA, and agile methodologies.
• Comfort with code reviews, unit tests, QA and UAT processes, and knowledge of end‑to‑end testing frameworks.
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Attention to detail, thoroughness, a proactive approach to problem‑solving, and ability to manage multiple priorities.

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 consumer websites.
• Work daily with compute services, query services, storage services and big data services using technologies like Vertex AI, Lambdas, DynamoDB, Cloud Functions, S3, Kubernetes, Glue, and BigQuery.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across browser frontend, network, applications, containers and serverless services.
• Own data ingestion pipelines for real‑time and batch processing of large‑scale content and eventdata.
• Scale and secure APIs to support editorial workflows, AI, personalization, and analytics.
• Own the team’s codebases, PRs, testing, maintenance and release process.
• Collaborate with product, editorial, and data science teams to deliver infrastructure that meets business needs.
• Monitor, optimize, and improve reliability, security, and cost efficiency of cloud systems.
• Communicate and present a vision to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Organize architecture discussions and run agile sprint ceremonies.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Agile practices

Python/Node.js/Go

Troubleshooting

Communication

Attention to detail

Education

MS or BS in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

REST APIs

GraphQL

Git

JIRA

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

The New York Post is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead our technology teams in delivering scalable, high‑performance infrastructure and data services for our digital brands. You will own API design, data pipelines, personalization systems, and AI tooling across AWS and GCP, guiding a hands‑on engineering team in a fast‑paced newsroom.

This hybrid role requires strong leadership, deep experience with cloud services and modern languages, and the ability to align editorial and