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The New York Times · 1 day ago

Software Engineer, Edge Platforms

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Entry, Mid Level

$110K/yr - $130K/yr

2+ years exp

The New York Times is committed to independent journalism and seeks a Software Engineer for their Edge Platforms team. The role involves developing software for traffic management and product personalization infrastructure, utilizing cloud-native technologies and backend engineering practices.

Digital MediaJournalismNews

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

You will write software in Go to help implement a remarkable developer onboarding experience for engineering teams

You will improve overall performance by writing software that leverages cached content over passing requests to backend systems

You will help Improve performance and reliability of primary systems by improving upon software observability, monitoring, logging, and instrumentation

You will design and implement automation to reduce operational toil for the team

You will use cloud native technology and design patterns such as Kubernetes and Pub/Sub

This role may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables

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

This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager, Edge Platforms

Qualification

GoKubernetesAWSGCPDistributed systemsDockerTerraformCI/CDLinux containersMonitoringLoggingInstrumentationObservability

Required

2+ years of experience in programming languages that are backend focused (Python, Java, Scala)

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

Familiarity with distributed system design

A high degree of interest in Linux containers and smart clustering solutions like Kubernetes

Preferred

Docker/Kubernetes, in a production environment

HashiCorp tooling, specifically Terraform and Vault

Deploy Pipeline and CI/CD

Configure and deploy open source software in production

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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