About the Role:
The New York Times is looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Data Platform mission to lead a new engineering team focused on creating data products designed to meet NYT's most important real-time needs, including behavioral and targeting use cases. You will build a team of engineers focused on deploying and managing real-time pipelines and APIs in an event-driven architecture to process event streams and serve aggregated data for customer-facing use cases. You will report to the Director of Data Platform.
This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of engineers, promoting a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Hire and develop engineering talent within the team.
- Oversee the execution of roadmap items and increase productivity and delivery
- Collaborate with product managers and partners to define product requirements and roadmaps.
- Guide technical decisions and architectural design for the team's projects.
- Monitor and report on initiative progress and risks.
- Experience coaching engineers, helping them make an impact while growing in their careers.
- Experience collaborating with product and partners to meet shared goals.
- 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:
- 2+ years experience as an Engineering Manager leading a data engineering team building production data pipelines and data products.
- 5+ years of full-time data engineering experience shipping real-time solutions with event-driven architectures and stream-processing frameworks.
- Experience with AWS and their service offerings and tools.
- Understanding of modern API design principles and technologies, including REST, GraphQL, and gRPC for data serving.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience developing pipelines with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or Spark Streaming.
- Understanding of modern data platforms, including data lake technologies and medallion architectures.
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The annual base pay range for this role is between:
$152,000 - $190,000 USD
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