Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
New York City
Full Time Senior-level / Expert USD 130K+
The New York Times
Live news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world. Subscribe for coverage of U.S. and international news, politics, business, technology, science, health,...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 Overview & Responsibilities:
Our 60+ product teams across The New York Times produce operational data that is shared with our data ecosystem allowing data engineers, analysts and data architects to enrich and aggregate this data into meaningful, long-living data products that expose key metrics – allowing the business to make important decisions and report the health of the business to all partners.
Our Team, Warehouse Platforms, builds the platform tooling delivering the capabilities of transformation, orchestration, infrastructure, data management, observability and governance. Our platform enables data producers and data consumers to reliably share their operational data and create high-quality domain-data products.
What You'll Do:
- Develop platform tooling to enable data applications and data teams to build data products that expose high-quality raw and modeled data for historical analytics and business use
- You will build self-service platforms to power The Times' Technology and Data teams with a focus on simplifying complexity and providing a smooth user experience
- You will partner with other teams to develop and deliver platform capabilities of transformation, governance, observability and orchestration
- You will organize and guide balanced decisions across your peers for architecture, design, and implementation details
- You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of the Data Products Platform team
Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years of overall experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) and configuration, especially with cloud-native data-warehousing solutions like Snowflake or BigQuery
- Experience in at least one programming language - Python or Go
- Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code platform
- Experience with GitOps, CI/CD pipelines and build tools such as Drone
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with modern-data-stack tools (dbt, Fivetran, MonteCarlo)
- Experience building and shipping platform tooling and facilitating wide adoption in an organization with a diverse set of users
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog and Sumo Logic
- Experience building frontend applications
- Familiarity with data warehousing and data modeling
This is a hybrid role located in New York City.
This role may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.
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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$104,000—$130,000 USDThe 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.
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Tags: Architecture BigQuery CI/CD Data management Data Warehousing dbt Engineering FiveTran GCP Pipelines Privacy Python Snowflake Terraform
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