Senior Engineer, Developer Platforms - GenAI
The New York TimesBase Salary
$140k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build GenAI-powered developer tooling, including prompts, IDE integrations, Cursor and Claude rules, and usage telemetry.
- Build and operate a GenAI developer platform using LiteLLM for local and long-running agents, authentication, configuration, and LLM routing.
- Own guardrails and observability for agentic workflows and establish safe, auditable standards.
- Integrate agents with Datadog, DX, FinOut, Jira, GitHub, and internal platforms.
- Collaborate with engineers and managers across Product Engineering to design tools that fit existing development workflows.
- Support technical debt reduction through structured migrations and platform modernization.
- Participate in limited on-call responsibilities.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
- At least 2 years of experience improving developer experience through workflows, documentation, and internal platform capabilities.
- Experience designing and building cloud-native applications using Golang.
- Hands-on experience building software with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar GenAI tools.
- Preferred: at least 3 years of hands-on experience managing and deploying resources in AWS.
- Preferred: at least 2 years of experience managing workloads deployed on Kubernetes.
- Preferred: experience in prompt engineering or building AI-powered tools.
- Commitment to journalistic independence, ethical AI use, and The New York Times mission.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Limited on-call responsibilities with the schedule determined after joining.
- Potential eligibility for annual bonus and restricted stock for U.S. roles.
- Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, company-matching 401(k), paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, and professional development programs may be available.
- Benefits information for roles outside the U.S. is provided during the interview process.
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