New York Times
Senior Software Engineer, Personalization Platform
New York Times, New York, New York, us, 10261
Senior Software Engineer, Personalization Platform
The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It's why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It's why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it's why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it's worth paying for. About the Role
The Personalization Platform at the New York Times builds and maintains a flexible system of editorial, technical and data infrastructure tools to help surface the best of our journalism to readers. You'll support the programming of 1:1 personalization experiments and variants for our machine learning powered systems on the homepage, story pages, and our mobile apps. You will report to the Engineering Manager of Search & Personalization. Responsibilities: Lead the development and optimization of data and technical infrastructure that connects our machine learning platform to editorial tools and surfaces. Draw on your experience with Kubernetes and Kafka to build real-time systems that reflect the rapid pace of our newsroom. Maintain our Personalization subgraph in a federated GraphQL architecture. Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world. Basic Qualifications: 5+ years of experience in programming languages that are backend focused (Node / Typescript, Go, Java) 3+ years of experience with cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform 2+ years of experience with data engineering in production applications (Apache Beam / Airflow, GCP Dataflow / Composer) Preferred Qualifications: Experience with Graphql Experience running user-facing experiments This role requires limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables. The annual base pay range for this role is between: $140,000 - $155,000 USD The New York Times Company is committed to being the world's best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It's why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It's why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it's why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it's worth paying for. About the Role
The Personalization Platform at the New York Times builds and maintains a flexible system of editorial, technical and data infrastructure tools to help surface the best of our journalism to readers. You'll support the programming of 1:1 personalization experiments and variants for our machine learning powered systems on the homepage, story pages, and our mobile apps. You will report to the Engineering Manager of Search & Personalization. Responsibilities: Lead the development and optimization of data and technical infrastructure that connects our machine learning platform to editorial tools and surfaces. Draw on your experience with Kubernetes and Kafka to build real-time systems that reflect the rapid pace of our newsroom. Maintain our Personalization subgraph in a federated GraphQL architecture. Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world. Basic Qualifications: 5+ years of experience in programming languages that are backend focused (Node / Typescript, Go, Java) 3+ years of experience with cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform 2+ years of experience with data engineering in production applications (Apache Beam / Airflow, GCP Dataflow / Composer) Preferred Qualifications: Experience with Graphql Experience running user-facing experiments This role requires limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables. The annual base pay range for this role is between: $140,000 - $155,000 USD The New York Times Company is committed to being the world's best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.