Senior Software Engineer, CI/CD
The New York TimesBase Salary
$140k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build shared CI/CD capabilities and delivery workflows using GitHub Actions, Argo CD, and related services.
- Develop canary, blue/green, and progressive rollout strategies to make releases safer and lower risk.
- Integrate GitHub workflows, branch protections, checks, and Marketplace-style actions into the delivery platform.
- Support safe and observable GenAI-assisted workflows, including migration agents, test generation, and pipeline maintenance agents.
- Instrument delivery workflows with metrics, logs, and alerts and integrate them with Datadog, DX, and other observability tools.
- Partner with Developer AI, SRE, Product Infrastructure Engineering, Product, platform, and product engineering teams to improve delivery reliability and adoption.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience designing, building, and operating CI/CD and software delivery systems.
- Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language, including Go, Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or Java, with strong code review, debugging, reliability, and performance skills.
- At least 3 years of experience with containers, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitOps-based deployment workflows, and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
- Hands-on experience with GenAI-assisted developer tools such as Cursor, Copilot, or Claude Code.
- Experience collaborating with Product, platform, and product engineering teams to design workflows, communicate trade-offs, and drive adoption.
- Preferred experience with artifact and package management systems such as Artifactory.
- Preferred familiarity with delivery observability practices, CI/CD metrics, deployment events, platform teams, SRE, or infrastructure teams operating mission-critical developer platforms.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring two days per week at the New York City headquarters.
- Potential eligibility for annual bonus and restricted stock for U.S. roles.
- Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, matching 401(k), paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, and professional development programs may be available.
- The role is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager of the DevEx Application Delivery team.
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