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. 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.
Responsibilities
- Write software in Go to help implement a remarkable developer onboarding experience for engineering teams
- Improve overall performance by writing software that leverages cached content over passing requests to backend systems
- Help improve performance and reliability of primary systems by improving upon software observability, monitoring, logging, and instrumentation
- Design and implement automation to reduce operational toil for the team
- Use cloud native technology and design patterns such as Kubernetes and Pub/Sub
- 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
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
Benefits
- 401k
- health insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- paid holidays
- flexible scheduling
- professional development
