Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL Platform
The New York Times6 hours ago
Base Salary
$162k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop scalable, reliable, and performant GraphQL platform offerings.
- Establish and enforce GraphQL schema design and governance practices and participate in platform-wide schema working groups.
- Review and mentor cross-team contributions and mentor team members.
- Build automation, developer tooling, and onboarding materials for service adopters and subgraph contributors.
- Support on-call, incident response, and troubleshooting for platform-level escalations.
- Deliver projects from design through implementation, testing, and documentation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience focused on API development.
- Expertise developing and scaling production GraphQL APIs with practical knowledge of federation principles.
- Experience with at least one statically typed backend language; the team uses Go.
- Familiarity with automation for code quality, release management, and developer workflow improvements.
- Preferred: experience with Apollo GraphQL Router, Federation, schema design, plugins, or extensions.
- Preferred: experience optimizing high-traffic APIs and working with CDN integration, caching, and multi-region operations.
- Preferred: experience troubleshooting and improving observability across distributed systems.
- Preferred: experience deploying and maintaining applications on Kubernetes.
- Commitment to learning, knowledge sharing, constructive feedback, and the organization’s journalistic mission.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s).
- Company-matching 401(k) plan and employee stock purchase plan.
- Paid vacation, paid sick days, and paid parental leave.
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
- Eligible for variable pay such as an annual bonus and restricted stock; base salary is $162,000—$195,000 USD.
- Hybrid work arrangement based at the NYC headquarters, typically two days per week in the office.
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