Software Engineer, Cloud Engineering

The New York Times • New York, NY

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a passionate technologist and collaborative partner to help shape and evolve a centralized, scalable container runtime platform built on Kubernetes. In this role, you'll contribute to the team's technical vision, work across observability, security, deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and containerization, and partner closely with product engineering teams to optimize applications for the cloud. You'll promote modern automation practices such as Infrastructure-as-Code and automated access management, surface technical risks, document best practices and production support playbooks, and participate in on-call rotations for the tools you help build. You will report to the Senior Manager of the Cloud Engineering Team. This NYC-based hybrid role (2 days per week in office)

Requirements

• 3+ years of building and operating distributed systems
• Experience collaborating on large projects with significant impact
• 1+ years of Experience with AWS cloud tooling
• A high degree of interest in Linux containers and managed clustering solutions like AWS EKS/ECS/Fargate, and GKE
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-code concepts

Nice To Haves

• A passion for automating things
• An understanding of distributed systems architecture and experience with networking, load balancing, monitoring, and troubleshooting in a cloud environment will be a plus
• A high degree of empathy for existing solutions and issues. The New York Times is modern in many ways but is also prone to having issues that a 165-year-old organization may have - including legacy systems. There are many things to improve
• A commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

Responsibilities

• Contribute to shaping the technical vision for the team
• Develop, operate, and collaborate on the evolution of a centralized, scalable container runtime environment built on Kubernetes
• Surface technical risks and partner with stakeholders to assess technical complexity and sustainability needs
• Work within the overlap of several areas of focus: observability, security, deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure and containerization
• Promote the use of modern automation around access management and Infrastructure-as-code
• Work with product engineering teams, helping them optimize applications for cloud infrastructure
• Document best practices, prescribed solutions, and production support playbooks
• Participate in on-call rotations for the tools we build, and provide expertise to users of our solutions
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees