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The New York Times · 1 day ago

Software Engineer, Cloud Engineering

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

$110K/yr - $130K/yr

3+ years exp

The New York Times is a leading media organization dedicated to independent journalism and providing quality content. They are seeking a Software Engineer in Cloud Engineering to help build and evolve a centralized container runtime platform on Kubernetes, collaborating with product engineering teams to optimize applications for the cloud.

Digital MediaJournalismNews

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Contribute to shaping the technical vision for the team

Develop, operate, and collaborate on the evolution of a centralized, scalable container runtime environment built on Kubernetes

Surface technical risks and partner with stakeholders to assess technical complexity and sustainability needs

Work within the overlap of several areas of focus: observability, security, deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure and containerization

Promote the use of modern automation around access management and Infrastructure-as-code

Work with product engineering teams, helping them optimize applications for cloud infrastructure

Document best practices, prescribed solutions, and production support playbooks

Participate in on-call rotations for the tools we build, and provide expertise to users of our solutions

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

KubernetesAWS cloud toolingInfrastructure-as-CodeDistributed systemsLinux containersAutomationEmpathyDiversityInclusionCollaboration

Required

3+ years of building and operating distributed systems

Experience collaborating on large projects with significant impact

1+ years of Experience with AWS cloud tooling

A high degree of interest in Linux containers and managed clustering solutions like AWS EKS/ECS/Fargate, and GKE

Experience with Infrastructure-as-code concepts

Preferred

A passion for automating things

An understanding of distributed systems architecture and experience with networking, load balancing, monitoring, and troubleshooting in a cloud environment will be a plus

A high degree of empathy for existing solutions and issues. The New York Times is modern in many ways but is also prone to having issues that a 165-year-old organization may have - including legacy systems. There are many things to improve

A commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

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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