The New York Times · 2 weeks ago
Software Engineer, Cloud Engineering
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$110K/yr - $130K/yr
3+ years expThe New York Times is dedicated to independent journalism and seeks a passionate technologist for their Cloud Engineering team. The role involves shaping a scalable container runtime platform built on Kubernetes, optimizing applications for the cloud, and promoting modern automation practices.
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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
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
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.
1001-5000 employees
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