About the Role
The New York Times (NYT) is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Developer Platforms organization as part of the Engagements team.
- The Developer Platforms organization provides cloud infrastructure and tooling to over 60 teams and 450+ engineers in NYT Product Engineering via an internal developer platform.
- The Engagements team consists of 5 engineers of different levels who promote platform adoption to enhance developer productivity across the organization.
- You will report to the Engineering Manager of the Engagements team.
- The team collaborates with NYT product engineering teams to modernize and migrate systems to the platform.
- This support enables product engineers to focus on feature development, ensuring the creation of reliable, scalable, and secure applications.
You will follow a hybrid work schedule based in our New York City headquarters. You can typically expect to come into the office two days a week.
Responsibilities:
- You will help guide product engineering teams on the adoption and usage of cloud infrastructure, Developer Platforms tooling, and solutions.
- You will also engage with engineers across the entire department to make incremental improvements to our tech strategy and the implementation of our platform.
- 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.
Basic Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience with services provided by Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.
- 2+ years of experience operating Kubernetes clusters (management, container orchestration, networking).
- 1+ years of experience doing migrations to different cloud providers.
- 1+ years of experience provisioning infrastructure using Terraform or similar.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Kubernetes certifications, such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) or CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer).
- Experience with service mesh technologies, such as Istio.
- Experience configuring observability tools such as DataDog and Prometheus.
This role may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account factors such as team size and other relevant variables.
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The annual base pay range for this role is between:
$140,000 - $155,000 USD
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