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The New York Times · 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Personalization Platform

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$140K/yr - $160K/yr

5+ years exp

The New York Times is committed to independent journalism and enhancing reader experience through technology. The role involves leading the development of the Personalization Platform, optimizing data and technical infrastructure, and supporting machine learning systems for personalized journalism delivery.

Digital MediaJournalismNews

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead the development and optimization of data and technical infrastructure that connects our machine learning platform to editorial tools and surfaces

Draw on your experience with Kubernetes and Kafka to build real-time systems that reflect the rapid pace of our newsroom

Maintain our Personalization subgraph in a federated GraphQL architecture

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

Qualification

NodeTypescriptGoJavaAWSGoogle Cloud PlatformApache BeamAirflowGCP DataflowGraphQLData engineeringUser-facing experiments

Required

5+ years of experience in programming languages that are backend focused (Node / Typescript, Go, Java)

3+ years of experience with cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform

2+ years of experience with data engineering in production applications (Apache Beam / Airflow, GCP Dataflow / Composer)

Preferred

Experience with Graphql

Experience running user-facing experiments

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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