Engineering Manager, Messaging Platforms (Audience Targeting)

The New York Times•New York, NY

47d•Hybrid

About The Position

The New York Times is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Audience Targeting team. This team builds high-throughput systems—including APIs, databases, and pipelines—that power personalized communication for millions of readers across email, push, and other channels. Leading a team of 6–9 engineers, you will drive a strategy of personalization: sending the right message to the right subscriber or potential subscriber at the right time, often at the high-stakes speed of breaking news. You will empower your team to develop the technical vision for our targeting platform, partnering with product and data leaders to build a scalable, intelligent ecosystem that ensures our messaging has maximum impact.

Requirements

2+ years of experience in an engineering management or people leadership role
5+ years of hands-on experience as a software engineer
Demonstrated technical leadership in the delivery of enterprise-scale software projects
Experience hiring, developing, and retaining software engineers
Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS preferred)

Nice To Haves

Leadership & Delegation: Proven success in developing emerging talent and delegating complex projects to empower engineers to grow into technical owners
Technical Expertise: Experience with Golang, AWS (specifically Lambda, SQS, and DynamoDB), event-driven architectures, and distributed systems at scale
Data Expertise: Experience working with large-scale data storage and analysis tools such as Postgres and BigQuery
Collaboration: Experience working on projects with non-engineering partners (e.g., Data Science, Marketing, Legal, Privacy)

Responsibilities

Lead and Develop the Team: Manage a team of 6–9 backend engineers, fostering their career growth through coaching, mentorship, and continuous feedback. Promote a culture of collaboration, engineering excellence, and psychological safety.
Drive Technical Strategy: Guide the team in designing, building, and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency services and pipelines for audience targeting. Drive decisions on architecture and technology selection within our AWS-forward ecosystem.
Execute and Deliver: Collaborate across functions and stakeholders to define roadmaps, plan sprints, and deliver impactful projects. Ensure the team's work is aligned with broader company objectives.
Ensure Operational Excellence: Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of the team's services. Champion robust monitoring, alerting, and on-call practices to maintain high availability for our critical systems.
Collaborate Across Boundaries: Build strong relationships and coordinate projects across other teams and organizations to ensure successful outcomes. Represent the team in technical discussions and clearly articulate technical challenges and risks.
Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.