Staff Software Engineer, CI/CD

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) matching plan

Paid vacation and sick days

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking a skilled technical leader for their Developer Platforms mission to improve software delivery through CI/CD resilience. In this hybrid role based in New York City, you'll mentor engineers and shape the direction of agent-driven changes integrating AI tools.

Qualifications include 7+ years of experience in software delivery and proficiency in key programming languages and tools like Kubernetes. The position offers an annual base pay range of $162,000 to $190,000, alongside comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software delivery and building technical strategy.
• Proficiency in building and maintaining production services using major programming languages.
• Strong background in containers, Kubernetes, and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction of software delivery for product teams.
• Collaborate to shape the roadmap for delivery platform improvements.
• Mentor engineers and foster an inclusive engineering culture.

Skills

Technical strategy and software delivery

CI/CD systems experience

Production service maintenance

Containerization and Kubernetes

GenAI-assisted developer tooling

Mentoring engineers

Education

7+ years of relevant experience

Experience with major programming languages

Experience scaling platform for internal engineers

Tools

Github Actions

Argo CD

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Job description

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, similar to our GenAI platform roles that turn internal practices into reusable tools and agents. When you improve this platform, you change how The New York Times ships software.

This is a hybrid role based two days in our New York City headquarters. 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 and 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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The annual base pay range for this role is between $162,000 and $190,000 USD. For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, 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 (FSAs), 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.

The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email [e-mail].

The Company encourages those with criminal histories to apply, and will consider their applications in a manner consistent with applicable “Fair Chance” laws, including but not limited to the NYC Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.