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The New York Times · 4 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL Platform

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$140K/yr - $155K/yr

5+ years exp

The New York Times is dedicated to independent journalism and seeks to enhance its digital and app experiences. They are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to manage their GraphQL platform, focusing on API development, reliability, and scalability while mentoring team members and contributing to platform automation.

Digital MediaJournalismNews

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop new platform offerings while ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our GraphQL platform as it continues to grow

Lead by example in establishing and enforcing GraphQL schema design and governance best practices, participating in platform-wide schema working groups, and reviewing/mentoring cross-team contributions

Contribute to the platform's automation, developer tooling, and onboarding/kick-off guides for service adopters and subgraph contributors

Support on-call, incident response, and troubleshooting efforts for platform-level escalations

Mentor team members, promoting technical excellence and a culture of respect and constructive feedback

Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world

Qualification

GraphQL API developmentStatically typed backend languageAutomation for code qualityApollo GraphQLPerformance optimization for APIsKubernetes deploymentTroubleshooting skillsDeveloper workflow improvementsKnowledge sharingMentoring team members

Required

5+ years of software development experience with a focus on API development

Expertise developing and scaling GraphQL APIs in production, with practical knowledge of federation principles (Apollo or similar)

Background includes at least one statically typed backend language (we use Go)

Familiar with automation for code quality, release management, and developer workflow improvements

Experience delivering projects from design to implementation, testing and documentation

Value learning and improvement, sharing knowledge, and welcoming constructive feedback

Preferred

Background working with Apollo GraphQL (Router, Federation, schema design, plugins/extensions)

Knowledge of performance optimization for APIs under high traffic, CDN integration, caching, and multi-region operations

Experience troubleshooting and improving observability for a platform distributed across multiple systems

Experience deploying and maintaining applications on Kubernetes

Company

The New York Times

The New York Times is powered by the idea that independent, deeply reported journalism fuels a healthy and engaged society.

Founded in 1851

New York, New York, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.nytco.com/

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