Staff Software Engineer, Application Delivery

The New York Times; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Restricted stock units

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Application Delivery in New York, NY with remote options within the USA. You will guide the shared delivery platform, enabling safe, observable, and scalable software releases across News, Cooking, Games, and Audio teams.

Lead with modern CI/CD patterns, guardrails for AI‑driven changes, and a culture of engineering excellence. You will mentor engineers, influence the delivery roadmap, and collaborate with product and platform teams to

Qualifications

• 7+ years building a technology strategy for software delivery.
• Experience turning a platform into a self‑service product for internal engineers.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, TS/Node.js or Java with code review skills.
• 5+ years with containers, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and cloud services.
• Experience using delivery metrics and platform observability to improve release quality.
• GenAI tooling experience and safe agentic CI/CD integration.
• Proven ability to lead cross‑team technical work and mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Define and guide the shared delivery platform as a product for internal teams.
• Shape agent‑ready delivery policies and guardrails for scalable releases.
• Collaborate with Product and engineering leaders to drive the delivery roadmap.
• Deliver secure, observable delivery systems that boost reliability and velocity.
• Set best practices for testing, deployment, progressive delivery, and observability.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to an inclusive engineering culture.

Skills

CI/CD expertise

Platform‑as‑a‑product

Go/Python/TS/Java

Kubernetes & containers

Terraform + IaC

GenAI tooling

Cross‑team collaboration

Observability & testing

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Application Delivery

New York, NY; Remote - USA

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.

About the Role

The Developer Platforms mission at The New York Times builds the foundational platforms, tooling, and paved paths that help product teams ship high‑quality experiences quickly and safely. Our Application Delivery team owns the shared software delivery platform (CI/CD, artifact management) and deployment workflows used by hundreds of engineers across News, Cooking, Games and Audio to ship software.

As the Times leans into AI‑assisted and agentic development, Application Delivery is where those changes become real. You will set the technical direction for how AI‑generated and agent‑driven change flows safely, observably, and at scale through CI/CD.

You’ll help teams reduce release risk with modern deployment patterns, and turn effective delivery practices into reusable pipelines and templates that scale across the organization, much like our GenAI platform roles turn internal practices into reusable tools and agents. When you improve this platform, you change how The New York Times ships software.

You will report to the Engineering Manager of the DevEx Application Delivery team.

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 (migrations, test generation, pipeline maintenance) 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.

Basic Qualifications

7+ years of experience building the technical strategy and driving software delivery (Github Actions, Argo CD or equivalent CI/CD systems) or similar platform work with broad organizational impact beyond operations.

Experience building and scaling a platform as a product for internal engineers with multi-tenancy serving many teams through self‑service paved paths, with attention to adoption, backward compatibility, and isolation/guardrails between tenants

Demonstrated proficiency in building and maintaining production services in one or more general‑purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or Java), including code review and debugging complex issues.

5+ years of experience with containers, Kubernetes, package management tools(Helm or equivalent), IAC tools(Terraform or equivalent), Gitops‑based deployment workflows and cloud services such as AWS, GCP.

Experience using delivery and productivity metrics (e.g., DORA, SPACE) and platform observability to measure and improve release quality and delivery.

Proficiency with GenAI‑assisted developer tooling (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, or Claude Code) and judgment about how to integrate agentic workflows into CI/CD safely.

Experience leading cross‑team technical work, communicating trade‑offs, and building understanding among diverse partners including Product, platform, and product engineering teams.

Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture.

Preferred Qualifications

Exposure to artifact/package management (e.g., Artifactory or similar) with attention to security, retention, cost, and ease of use for engineers.

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Compensation and Benefits For This Role:

In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company‑matching 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.

The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$162,000 - $190,000 USD

Candidate Use of GenAI Tools:

We’re excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.

If you’re an engineering candidate, we’ll let you know what specific GenAI tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.

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