Senior Software Engineer, Privacy & Governance Services
The New York TimesBase Salary
$140k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and operate production services and APIs that provide privacy and governance capabilities to engineering teams.
- Build self-service SDKs, APIs, and platform integrations for product and data teams.
- Develop systems for data subject requests, data classification, access management, data retention and deletion, and consent or age-signal handling.
- Automate accountability models, governance rules, workflows, and scorecard services on the data platform.
- Own services across design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and on-call operations.
- Lead technical design reviews, mentor engineers, and drive team engineering standards.
- Partner with product, legal, privacy, governance, and data platform teams to build reliable systems.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- Proficiency in one or more languages such as Go, Python, JavaScript, Java, or Scala.
- Experience building services and APIs at scale.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP and modern deployment practices including containers, CI/CD, and observability.
- Experience with data systems such as DynamoDB, other NoSQL stores, or data warehouses such as BigQuery.
- Preferred experience with privacy, security, or governance domains, including access control, encryption, anonymization, audit logging, or data lifecycle management.
- Preferred experience building developer-facing tooling or platforms adopted by other teams.
- Preferred experience mentoring engineers and leading the technical direction of a team or project.
- Exposure to mobile or native applications.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
- Company-matching 401(k) plan
- Paid vacation and sick days
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development programs
- Potential eligibility for annual bonus and restricted stock for U.S. roles
Tech Stack
About The New York Times
The New York Times is powered by the idea that independent, deeply reported journalism fuels a healthy and engaged society. Our reporters, columnists, editors, engineers, designers, data analysts, developers and marketers breathe life into the most important topics of our time and tell stories that might otherwise go untold. Whether bringing new truths to light with our reporting, building innovative products that deliver a best-in-class digital experience, or analyzing data to understand how we can best serve our readers, our people power the world’s top destination for journalism. Working at The Times means envisioning and developing the future of journalism. Bring your passion, perspective and experience and join us as we seek the truth and help people understand the world. Check out our career opportunities (nytco.com/careers) and follow our page to connect with Times employees, journalists and readers.