Software Engineer-CI/CD-Application Delivery

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.

About The Role

The Developer Platforms group is an essential part of The New York Times' engineering organization with a focus on building an Internal Developer Platform to over 60 teams and 450+ engineers in NYT Product Engineering. You will be a part of the DevEx Application Delivery team within Developer Platforms that enables engineering teams at the New York Times to ship code with high velocity and quality.

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role. Employees can work from home up to 3 days a week.

You will report to the Engineering Manager of the DevEx Application Delivery team.

Responsibilities

• Help develop infrastructure and observability for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment platform that supports hundreds of builds and deployments per day to ensure system reliability and scalability.
• You will work within areas such as deployment pipeline, containerization, observability, secrets management and research, strategize and propose solutions that meet requirements, reduce friction for product engineers, and consolidate existing solutions.
• You will engage with engineers across the entire department to make incremental improvements to our tech strategy and the implementation of our platform.
• You will guide product feature teams on the best practices of CI/CD workflows leveraging our systems.
• Production support of our users, including weekly on-call rotations.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of software programming(language-agnostic, but we use Go) and scripting like bash.
• 2+ years of experience running and troubleshooting workloads on Kubernetes clusters (understanding of resources management and observability)
• 2+ years of infrastructure provisioning and monitoring using Terraform and DataDog or Prometheus and with cloud services like AWS or GCP.
• 2+ years of experience working with CI/CD systems like Github Actions or Jenkins
• Experience troubleshooting issues with users: You are motivated by helping others succeed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience using platforms such as Spinnaker, Harness, CodeFresh, Akuity or ArgoCD.
• Experience in prompt engineering or leveraging GenAI tools like Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$110,000 - $130,000 USD

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