Staff Engineer, Web Platforms

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

When news breaks, readers from around the world turn to The New York Times for trustworthy, authoritative coverage. Every day, journalists at The New York Times report more than 200 stories from dozens of countries around the world. Our journalism is consumed by over 100 million users each month.

We are looking for a staff level engineer with deep experience in the web ecosystem. You’ll contribute to a vital team in an organization that values empathy, collaboration, transparency, diversity, and learning. You will report to Soraya Dib and work cross-functionally with engineers, designers, and product managers.

About the Team

Our services power the presentation for 100% of our News content for nytimes.com and related mobile app webviews. 

Our internal platform also includes a core monorepo, common components and libraries, observability & performance tooling, CI/CD, test automation framework, infrastructure, and security.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with other lead engineers to shape our ongoing web product strategy, architecture, and engineering culture.
• Provide technical leadership for high scale, high visibility projects within the team and across teams. 
• Champion and coach industry best practices for engineering excellence, effectiveness, and efficiency.
• Partner with cross-functional leads to inform prioritization and long-term roadmap.
• Provide technical mentorship and peer support to other engineers. 

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of tech lead experience.
• 8+ years of full stack web development. 
• Experience building, operating, and monitoring complex, performance-critical web systems at scale in GCP and/or AWS. We support 60+ internal users and serve 45M+ pageviews/day.
• Strong experience with the JS/TS ecosystem, including:
• one or more Node.js frameworks (we use Express).
• one or more frontend JavaScript frameworks/libraries (we use React SSR). 
• JS build tooling such as yarn, pnpm, turborepo, lerna, nx, webpack, and/or babel.
• Experience implementing CI/CD using industry standards (we use Argo, Github Actions, and Drone).

Preferred Qualifications

• Lean, DevSecOps, GitOps, etc. 
• Kanban or other agile methodologies.

To learn more about our work and NYT’s broader technology organization check out the Times Open blog and follow @nytopen on Twitter!

This role may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$160,000—$175,000 USD

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email