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2023-12-08

Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

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. 

Mission and Responsibilities:

The Subscription Platform group develops the core backend services for the New York Times’ digital and home delivery subscriptions - including the billing, payment processing and subscription management systems that have enabled The New York Times to grow to over 10 million subscribers. Our ambitious goal is to reach 15 million subscribers by 2027. We're engaged in several projects to break down monolithic applications into microservices. In doing so, we need engineers with experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.


Responsibilities:

  • Design and build the foundational tools that will enable our future subscription platform to ensure NYT's growth goals
  • Work with your team to enable resilient systems that can scale
  • Incorporate state-of-the-art  telemetry and observability in our platform to allow operational excellence
  • Identify security problems and improve the security aspects of our services
  • Develop processes for automating, testing, and deploying your work
  • Work with Project Management, Product Management and other professionals within your team and across the organization
  • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables. 
  • You will report to Senior Engineering Manager, Subscription Management Platforms

Basic Qualifications: 

  • 3+ years of experience supporting modern infrastructure and distributed systems
  • Strong AWS knowledge and documentation experience
  • 1+ years of experience in Unix/Linux systems
  • 2+ years of experience with deploying and managing AWS services, such as EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, ALB, and Lambda
  • 2+ years experience in one or more scripting languages

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with Java/JVM
  • Proficiency with Terraform, Docker, and Drone
  • Experience with ecommerce, finance, or subscriptions
  • Experience with SOX and PCI
  • Strong proactive cross-functional collaboration skills and ability to drive results
  • Bias towards action
  • Growth mindset
  • Experience building and maintaining scalable and resilient systems
  • Experience with continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure automation

 

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:
$140,000—$155,000 USD

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does 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. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email reasonable.accommodations@nytimes.com. Emails sent for unrelated issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

The Company will further consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable "Fair Chance" laws. 

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