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The New York Times · 2 months ago

Engineering Manager, Messaging Platforms (Audience Targeting)

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$152K/yr - $190K/yr

7+ years exp

The New York Times is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their Audience Targeting team, which builds high-throughput systems for personalized communication. The role involves managing a team of engineers to drive technical strategy and ensure operational excellence in delivering impactful projects.

Digital MediaJournalismNews

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead and Develop the Team: Manage a team of 6–9 backend engineers, fostering their career growth through coaching, mentorship, and continuous feedback. Promote a culture of collaboration, engineering excellence, and psychological safety

Drive Technical Strategy: Guide the team in designing, building, and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency services and pipelines for audience targeting. Drive decisions on architecture and technology selection within our AWS-forward ecosystem

Execute and Deliver: Collaborate across functions and stakeholders to define roadmaps, plan sprints, and deliver impactful projects. Ensure the team's work is aligned with broader company objectives

Ensure Operational Excellence: Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of the team's services. Champion robust monitoring, alerting, and on-call practices to maintain high availability for our critical systems

Collaborate Across Boundaries: Build strong relationships and coordinate projects across other teams and organizations to ensure successful outcomes. Represent the team in technical discussions and clearly articulate technical challenges and risks

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

Engineering ManagementSoftware EngineeringAWSGolangEvent-driven ArchitecturesDistributed SystemsData StorageDelegationCollaborationLeadership

Required

2+ years of experience in an engineering management or people leadership role

5+ years of hands-on experience as a software engineer

Demonstrated technical leadership in the delivery of enterprise-scale software projects

Experience hiring, developing, and retaining software engineers

Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS preferred)

Preferred

Proven success in developing emerging talent and delegating complex projects to empower engineers to grow into technical owners

Experience with Golang, AWS (specifically Lambda, SQS, and DynamoDB), event-driven architectures, and distributed systems at scale

Experience working with large-scale data storage and analysis tools such as Postgres and BigQuery

Experience working on projects with non-engineering partners (e.g., Data Science, Marketing, Legal, Privacy)

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/

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