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
- 2+ years of experience, with a strong focus on backend development.
- 2+ years of experience in one or more backend programming languages such as Python or Go.
- 2+ years of experiencebuilding and maintaining backend services and APIs.
- 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
- Build and maintain scalable and reliable backend services and APIs for the central AI Platform.
- Contribute to the development of core platform components, including systems for prompt and workflow management, evaluation and tracing, and monitoring for cost, usage, and performance.
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code, primarily in backend languages like Python or Go.
- Work with your team to ensure a high degree of code quality, security, and system observability.
- Review code written by other software engineers on the team and provide constructive feedback.
- Contribute to robust testing strategies to ensure service reliability.
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.
- 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.
- We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law.
- The Company encourages those with criminal histories to apply, and will consider their applications in a manner consistent with applicable "Fair Chance" laws
