The New York Times is looking to solve challenges around data movement to help understand and make decisions about their business, build products that people love, and tailor their products to their users.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend engineering with a focus on data platform solutions
- Experience deploying and monitoring systems using cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP)
- Experience building REST APIs and batch or stream data pipelines
- Fluency with at least one high-level programming language like Go, Python or Java
- Familiarity with data stores such as RDBMS, Data Warehouses, NoSQL, Object
- Familiarity with streaming tools (Kafka, PubSub, Kinesis), DevOps principles, CICD tools (Drone, Jenkins, Gitlab) and infrastructure as code.
- Experience building data platform solutions or knowledge of basic data engineering processes such as large-scale event-driven systems, data lakehouse and ETL.
Responsibilities
- You will design and implement developer tools, frameworks and services which help product teams self-serve to publish their data and make that data accessible to other product teams across the organization.
- You will develop best practices for managing the data platform's core infrastructure that enables both batch and streaming data processing.
- You will build systems that are scalable, cost-effective, observable and built with privacy and the data lifecycle in mind.
- You will level up your teammates by collaborating with and mentoring junior team members.
- 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.
Other
- Limited on-call hours, on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.
- Annual tuition reimbursement program for those aiming to continue developing their skills while with us.
- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s Know Your Rights Poster is available.
- The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws.
- The Company encourages those with criminal histories to apply, and will consider their applications in a manner consistent with applicable 'Fair Chance' laws.
