Backend Engineering Intern, Wirecutter
About The Position
The New York Times is seeking a Backend Engineering Intern for Wirecutter. The role supports the infrastructure and engineering systems behind Wirecutter’s products, with a focus on improving software delivery and release quality and making the platform faster and more reliable through network and application architecture improvements. The intern will contribute to practical projects that help Wirecutter teams test, deploy, and operate web applications. Projects may involve investigating performance bottlenecks, strengthening automated quality checks, and improving the systems behind the product. Curiosity and learning are valued; applicants do not need to know every tool on day one.
Requirements
- Experience working with CI/CD workflows, especially for automating quality checks and code deployment.
- Experience or project work focused on web application performance optimization or latency reduction.
- A foundation in software development and an interest in how applications, infrastructure, and networks work together.
- A thoughtful, curious approach to debugging and problem-solving, and a willingness to collaborate and learn.
- Experience working with AI tools and agents like Claude Code.
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to AWS or Kubernetes.
- Experience with GitHub Actions.
- Familiarity with web application architecture, network requests, or performance measurement.
Responsibilities
- Help improve CI/CD workflows that automate quality checks and code deployment.
- Investigate web application performance and contribute to latency-reduction efforts.
- Explore network requests and application or platform architecture to identify opportunities for better performance and reliability.
- Build, test, and document improvements in collaboration with engineers across the team.
- Share learnings, including tradeoffs, results, and ideas for follow-up work.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
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