The New York Times
Overview
The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. Independent journalism is at the heart of all we do, with a world-renowned newsroom reporting from nearly 160 countries and a focus on reader experience across print, audio, digital and app platforms. The business strategy centers on making journalism so good that its worth paying for. About the Role The Live team at The New York Times is looking for a full-stack software engineer eager to work in a news-driven environment. You will shape impactful experiences for readers and build the next-generation suite of systems and services that power The Times breaking news coverage. You will join a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and product managers. Your primary focus will be to strengthen our position as the go-to news destination during breaking news by creating a more dynamic news report across surfaces, including formats such as Live Blog, Live Chat, and Storyline Feed. You will modernize the underlying architecture, improve system stability, accelerate development, and migrate to next-generation systems as part of modernization efforts, while ensuring reliability and high availability during critical moments. You will report to the Engineering Manager on the Live team. Responsibilities
Lead feature development from technical design to production operation, serving readers and editors, and adapting to rapid news cycles to seize breaking opportunities. Work across the full stack, build systems in modern technologies, write high-quality code, and continuously expand your skill set. Collaborate with designers and product managers to prototype news-driven features and evolve them into scalable systems. Collaborate with other engineers and teams to execute platform migrations as part of modernization efforts. Ensure features are reliable, scalable and secure, in partnership with your project team. Deploy, operate and troubleshoot your code in collaboration with the broader team. Operate with a product engineering mindset, contributing insights to bridge technical and product aspects to enhance reader and news needs. Provide production support to the newsroom for live coverage by participating in on-call rotations for the tools we build. Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world. Basic Qualifications
Full-stack technical background with expertise in one or more areas of the stack Familiarity with one or more persistence technologies (SQL, NoSQL, Firestore) Familiarity with troubleshooting and resolving issues in a production environment Preferred Qualifications
Experience utilizing public cloud platform services such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD techniques and tooling (e.g. Drone, Jenkins), automated testing and deployments, observability and monitoring Understanding of caching and content delivery Experience operating in an agile and nimble environment 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. REQ-018634 The annual base pay range for this role is between:
$110,000 - $130,000 USD Equal Opportunity & Accommodations
The New York Times Company is committed to being the worlds best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. We embrace a diverse workforce and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on protected characteristics. The U.S. EEOC Know Your Rights poster is available here. The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email reasonable.accommodations@nytimes.com. For information about The New York Times' privacy practices for job applicants, click here. Please beware of fraudulent job postings. The New York Times will not ask job applicants for financial information or for payment, and will not refer you to a third party to do so. If you see a fake or fraudulent job posting, report it to NYT applicants at NYTapplicants@nytimes.com. Apply for this job
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The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. Independent journalism is at the heart of all we do, with a world-renowned newsroom reporting from nearly 160 countries and a focus on reader experience across print, audio, digital and app platforms. The business strategy centers on making journalism so good that its worth paying for. About the Role The Live team at The New York Times is looking for a full-stack software engineer eager to work in a news-driven environment. You will shape impactful experiences for readers and build the next-generation suite of systems and services that power The Times breaking news coverage. You will join a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and product managers. Your primary focus will be to strengthen our position as the go-to news destination during breaking news by creating a more dynamic news report across surfaces, including formats such as Live Blog, Live Chat, and Storyline Feed. You will modernize the underlying architecture, improve system stability, accelerate development, and migrate to next-generation systems as part of modernization efforts, while ensuring reliability and high availability during critical moments. You will report to the Engineering Manager on the Live team. Responsibilities
Lead feature development from technical design to production operation, serving readers and editors, and adapting to rapid news cycles to seize breaking opportunities. Work across the full stack, build systems in modern technologies, write high-quality code, and continuously expand your skill set. Collaborate with designers and product managers to prototype news-driven features and evolve them into scalable systems. Collaborate with other engineers and teams to execute platform migrations as part of modernization efforts. Ensure features are reliable, scalable and secure, in partnership with your project team. Deploy, operate and troubleshoot your code in collaboration with the broader team. Operate with a product engineering mindset, contributing insights to bridge technical and product aspects to enhance reader and news needs. Provide production support to the newsroom for live coverage by participating in on-call rotations for the tools we build. Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world. Basic Qualifications
Full-stack technical background with expertise in one or more areas of the stack Familiarity with one or more persistence technologies (SQL, NoSQL, Firestore) Familiarity with troubleshooting and resolving issues in a production environment Preferred Qualifications
Experience utilizing public cloud platform services such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD techniques and tooling (e.g. Drone, Jenkins), automated testing and deployments, observability and monitoring Understanding of caching and content delivery Experience operating in an agile and nimble environment 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. REQ-018634 The annual base pay range for this role is between:
$110,000 - $130,000 USD Equal Opportunity & Accommodations
The New York Times Company is committed to being the worlds best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. We embrace a diverse workforce and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on protected characteristics. The U.S. EEOC Know Your Rights poster is available here. The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email reasonable.accommodations@nytimes.com. For information about The New York Times' privacy practices for job applicants, click here. Please beware of fraudulent job postings. The New York Times will not ask job applicants for financial information or for payment, and will not refer you to a third party to do so. If you see a fake or fraudulent job posting, report it to NYT applicants at NYTapplicants@nytimes.com. Apply for this job
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