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The New York Times · 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$140K/yr - $155K/yr

5+ years exp

The New York Times is committed to independent journalism and seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join their Data Infrastructure team. This role focuses on building data platform solutions to enhance data accessibility and support product teams across the organization.

Digital MediaJournalismNews

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

You will design and implement developer tools, frameworks and services which help product teams self-serve to publish their data and make that data accessible to other product teams across the organization

You will develop best practices for managing the data platform's core infrastructure that enables both batch and streaming data processing

You will build systems that are scalable, cost-effective, observable and built with privacy and the data lifecycle in mind

You will level up your teammates by collaborating with and mentoring junior team members

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

Backend engineeringData platform solutionsCloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP)REST APIsHigh-level programming (Go/Python/Java)Data stores (RDBMS/NoSQL)Streaming tools (Kafka/PubSub)CICD tools (Jenkins/Gitlab)DevOps principlesInfrastructure as codeData engineering processesApache Beam/FlinkData tooling (Fivetran/Census)

Required

5+ years of experience in backend engineering with a focus on data platform solutions

Experience deploying and monitoring systems using cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP)

Experience building REST APIs and batch or stream data pipelines

Fluency with at least one high-level programming language like Go, Python or Java

Familiarity with data stores such as RDBMS, Data Warehouses, NoSQL, Object

Familiarity with streaming tools (Kafka, PubSub, Kinesis), DevOps principles, CICD tools (Drone, Jenkins, Gitlab) and infrastructure as code

Preferred

Experience building data platform solutions or knowledge of basic data engineering processes such as large-scale event-driven systems, data lakehouse and ETL

Experience with any of the these technologies: Apache Beam, Apache Flink/Dataflow, Airflow, SQL/BigQuery

Familiarity with data tooling such as Fivetran, Census, Stitch

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision benefits

Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)

A company-matching 401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Paid sick days

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development programs

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/

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (40)

2024 (20)

2023 (21)

2022 (36)

2021 (27)

2020 (36)

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Leadership Team

William Bardeen

Chief Financial Officer

Crystal Chien

VP of Engineering

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