The New York Times is looking to build the backend services and infrastructure for an internal AI Platform that will enable teams across the company to build, deploy, and manage applications using large language models (LLMs) to advance journalism and business operations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development.
- 5+ years of experience in one or more backend programming languages such as Python or Go.
- 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems and APIs at scale.
- 1+ years of experience building applications with Large Language Models (LLMs) and familiarity with the surrounding ecosystem (e.g., orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation).
- Experience with MLOps, including building systems for model and prompt evaluation, tracing, and monitoring.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable backend services and APIs for a central platform used by teams building AI applications across our journalism and our business.
- Take ownership of core platform components and integrations, including systems for prompt and workflow management, evaluation and tracing, and monitoring for cost, usage, and performance.
- Develop the infrastructure that enables teams to create and manage their AI applications, complete with metadata, observability, and access controls.
- Architect and implement data pipelines and storage solutions to support our AI systems.
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code, primarily in backend languages like Python or Go.
- Ensure a high degree of code quality, security, and system observability.
- Review code written by other software engineers on the team and provide feedback.
Other
- This is a hybrid position based in our New York City headquarters. You can typically expect to come into the office two days per week.
- Be a mentor to other software engineers to enable their growth.
- 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.
- The annual base pay range for this role is between:$140,000—$155,000 USD
- We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
