Software Engineer, Edge Platforms

The New York Times•New York, NY

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

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 Our services power 100% of NYT traffic and are the first gateways for all of our readers and journalists. The team's responsibilities encompass CDN, DNS, edge caching, and unified traffic ingress and API Gateway. We use software written in Go to manage distributed systems, Kubernetes to host them, and modern CI & CD tooling to deploy them. Our traffic management solutions use cloud-native technologies including Gloo, Envoy, Istio, Cilium, and Web Assembly. We work in both AWS and GCP, and exclusively use Infrastructure-as-Code to accelerate development. We are looking for software engineers interested in backend engineering and distributed systems to help allow the future of our traffic management and product personalization infrastructure.

Requirements

2+ years of experience in programming languages that are backend focused (Python, Java, Scala)
1+ year of experience with cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform
Familiarity with distributed system design
A high degree of interest in Linux containers and smart clustering solutions like Kubernetes

Nice To Haves

Docker/Kubernetes, in a production environment
HashiCorp tooling, specifically Terraform and Vault
Deploy Pipeline and CI/CD
Configure and deploy open source software in production

Responsibilities

You will write software in Go to help implement a remarkable developer onboarding experience for engineering teams
You will improve overall performance by writing software that leverages cached content over passing requests to backend systems
You will help Improve performance and reliability of primary systems by improving upon software observability, monitoring, logging, and instrumentation
You will design and implement automation to reduce operational toil for the team
You will use cloud native technology and design patterns such as Kubernetes and Pub/Sub
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
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

Benefits

dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock
Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.

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