Staff Platform Engineer: AI-Driven Delivery & CI/CD

The Wirecutter; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking to lead developer platforms that accelerate and safeguard software delivery across News, Cooking, Games and Audio. As part of the Application Delivery team, you will set the technical direction for AI-generated and agent-driven changes, shaping safe, observable releases through CI/CD and scalable pipelines.

You will collaborate with product and engineering leaders to roadmap the delivery platform, improve code health, release quality, and velocity, and mentor

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction of software delivery as a shared product: shape paved paths in our shared platform that improve code health, release quality, and delivery speed for product teams.
• Set the technical direction for agent-ready delivery: design the policy, guardrails, and paved paths that turn AI-generated and agent-driven changes into safe, observable releases at scale by partnering with our Developer AI team.
• Collaborate with Product, engineering leaders, and internal users to shape the roadmap for the delivery platform and bring measurable impact on quality and speed.
• Deliver scalable, secure, and observable software delivery systems and workflows that improve reliability, and overall software quality and velocity.
• Champion engineering excellence in delivery by setting best practices for testing, deployment strategies, progressive delivery, and observability that are easy to adopt through the platform.
• Mentor engineers across the mission, contribute to hiring, and help foster an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture centered on shared platforms and high‑quality software delivery.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our mission and values and a commitment to our purpose to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Job description

The New York Times is seeking to lead developer platforms that accelerate and safeguard software delivery across News, Cooking, Games and Audio. As part of the Application Delivery team, you will set the technical direction for AI-generated and agent-driven changes, shaping safe, observable releases through CI/CD and scalable pipelines.

You will collaborate with product and engineering leaders to roadmap the delivery platform, improve code health, release quality, and velocity, and mentor