Software Engineer, Content Data Products
The New York TimesBase Salary
$110k - $130k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build content data products and APIs within The New York Times’ publishing platform for internal data solutions and external offerings.
- Own features or components from requirements gathering through design, implementation, QA, deployment, and monitoring.
- Use AI to process archival content and transform unstructured data into structured data.
- Maintain code quality, security, and system observability.
- Establish architectural best practices for high-concurrency, data-intensive systems.
- Architect automated testing frameworks that support service reliability at scale.
- Collaborate with product, design, engineering, project management, data science, newsroom, and external partners.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of software engineering experience.
- Fluency in backend technologies such as Go, Python, or Java and SQL databases.
- Experience designing and building data backend services and APIs for other teams to use.
- Experience developing data feeds.
- Experience with CI/CD concepts and tooling.
- Experience with infrastructure orchestration and familiarity with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS.
- Understanding of application and data security best practices.
- Experience collaborating as part of a cross-functional team.
- Frontend familiarity with JavaScript and React is preferred.
- Understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, ETL/ELT processes, data pipelines, and data architecture is preferred.
- Experience with AI/ML is preferred.
- Experience with content management systems, metadata and tagging, and extracting or digitizing content from multiple sources is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based in New York City, typically requiring two days per week in the office
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits may be available
- Flexible Spending Accounts may be available
- Company-matching 401(k) plan may be available
- Paid vacation and paid sick days
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs
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About The New York Times
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