Senior Software Engineer, Community
$140,000–$160,000 year
Hybrid · New York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Senior Backend Engineer to design backend services and APIs that power web and mobile experiences for commenting, moderation and reader engagement on The New York Times platform. Lead architectural discussions and contribute to technical roadmaps; oversee services in public clouds (GCP/AWS) including deployment, scaling, monitoring and incident response; collaborate with platform, SRE and partner teams to adopt shared infrastructure, CI/CD, observability tooling and best practices; improve operability with instrumentation, metrics, logging and post-incident reviews; write technical documentation and provide code reviews; mentor engineers and help establish backend and cloud development standards; occasionally respond to production opportunities with a fast-paced news cycle; align work with the journalistic independence mission.
Required Qualifications
- Have 5+ years of experience building and maintaining backend services in a production environment.
- Have proficiency in one or more backend languages (for example Go or Node.js/TypeScript)
- Have experience designing and implementing HTTP/REST or GraphQL APIs, and message queue or event-driven systems.
- Have hands-on experience with public cloud platform services such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Be comfortable working with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker and Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Deployment Manager or CloudFormation)
- Demonstrate proficiency with CI/CD tooling, automated testing, feature flag deployments, observability and monitoring.
- Have experience with one or more data stores (such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or other relational databases, and key-value or document stores)
- Experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners
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