Senior Engineer, Developer Platforms and Generative AI

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><div id="labeledImage.LOCATION" class="WIFG" data-automation-id="decorationWrapper"> <div class="WNHJ"> <div id="labeledImage.LOCATION--uid38" class="WE-Y WMXY WBAB WF0Y" data-automation-id="responsiveMonikerInput" data-metadata-id="labeledImage.LOCATION" data-uxi-form-item-child-list-index="0"> <div class="WJ-Y"> <p><strong>The <a href="https://www.nytco.com/mission-and-values/" target="_blank"><u>mission</u></a> 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.&nbsp;</strong></p> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><p><strong>About the Team</strong></p> <p>The&nbsp;<strong>Developer Platforms</strong>&nbsp;organization provides cloud infrastructure and tooling to&nbsp;<strong>100+ teams and 750+ engineers</strong>&nbsp;in NYT Product Engineering through an internal developer platform. The&nbsp;<strong>DevEx Platforms</strong>&nbsp;team (6 engineers) focuses on developer experience and workflow automation.</p> <p>We’re now expanding into more&nbsp;<strong>AI-assisted developer workflows</strong>&nbsp;using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot to support debugging, migrations, test generation, and everyday development in a safe, measurable way.</p> <p>This role sits in Developer Platforms and reports to the&nbsp;<strong>Engineering Manager of the DevEx Platforms team</strong>.</p> <p><strong>About the Role</strong></p> <p>As a&nbsp;<strong>Senior Software Engineer</strong>&nbsp;on DevEx Platforms, you’ll build&nbsp;<strong>GenAI-augmented developer experiences</strong>&nbsp;and platform capabilities used across all of The New York Times.</p> <p>Your work will help teams ship faster and more safely, pay down technical debt through structured migrations and platform modernization, and turn effective internal practices into reusable tools and agents.</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Design and build GenAI-powered developer tooling</strong>: prompts, IDE integrations, Cursor/Claude rules, and telemetry to understand how they’re used.</li> <li><strong>Build and run the GenAI developer platform</strong>: Tools, services, and integrations leveraging&nbsp;<a href="https://www.litellm.ai/">LiteLLM</a>&nbsp;to power both local and background/long-running agents, providing auth, configuration, and LLM routing.</li> <li><strong>Own guardrails and observability for agentic workflows</strong>: integrate with<a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/">&nbsp;Datadog</a>,<a href="https://getdx.com/">&nbsp;DX</a>, and<a href="https://www.finout.io/">&nbsp;FinOut</a>, define sensible standards, and make sure agents interact with Jira, GitHub, and internal platforms in a safe, auditable way.</li> <li><strong>Work closely with engineers and managers</strong>&nbsp;across Product Engineering to understand how they build software today and to design solutions that actually fit the way they work.</li> <li><strong>Support our mission and values</strong>, including&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytco.com/company/mission-and-values/">journalistic independence</a>, and keep ethics and safety central to how we use AI in developer workflows.</li> <li>This role includes&nbsp;<strong>limited on-call responsibilities</strong>; the schedule will be set when you join.Demonstrate support and understanding of our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytco.com/company/mission-and-values/" target="_blank">value of journalistic independence</a>&nbsp;and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.</li> <li>You will report to the Engineering Manager of the DevEx Platforms team</li> </ul> <h4>Basic Qualifications:</h4> <ul> <li>5+ years of professional software engineering experience</li> <li>2+ years of experience improving developer experience through workflows, documentation, and capabilities of the internal platform</li> <li>Experience designing and building cloud native applications. We use Golang</li> <li>Hands-on experience building software using GenAI tools, like GitHub's Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code</li> </ul> <h4>Preferred Qualifications:</h4> <div class="has-nudge" data-nudge-id="c6a0bd8f-1dd0-4f12-8590-8f0c14aeb654"> <ul> <li>3+ years of hands on experience managing and deploying resources in AWS</li> <li>2+ years of experience managing workloads deployed on Kubernetes</li> <li>Experience in prompt engineering or building AI-powered tools</li> </ul> <p>This role requires limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.</p> </div> <p>#LI-Hybrid</p> <p>REQ-020128</p> <p><span data-sheets-root="1"><strong>Compensation and Benefits For This Role:</strong><br><br>In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs. <br></span></p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">The annual base pay range for this role is between:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$140,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$180,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>Candidate Use of GenAI Tools:</strong></p> <p>We’re excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as po