The New York TimesRemote
Senior Engineer, Developer Platforms and Generative AI
United States of America
Full Time
5 hours ago
$140,000 - $160,000 USD
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
Developer ExperienceInternal Developer PlatformsCloud Native ApplicationsGolangGenerative AI ToolsGitHub CopilotCursorClaude CodeAWSKubernetesPrompt EngineeringAIGenAILLMClaudeAgenticDatadogGitHubJira
About this role
The New York Times is a leading organization in independent journalism, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Developer Platforms team. The role involves building GenAI-augmented developer experiences and platform capabilities to improve developer workflows and enhance the overall software development process.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build GenAI-powered developer tooling: prompts, IDE integrations, Cursor/Claude rules, and telemetry to understand how they’re used
- Build and run the GenAI developer platform: Tools, services, and integrations leveraging LiteLLM to power both local and background/long-running agents, providing auth, configuration, and LLM routing
- Own guardrails and observability for agentic workflows: integrate with Datadog, DX, and FinOut, define sensible standards, and make sure agents interact with Jira, GitHub, and internal platforms in a safe, auditable way
- Work closely with engineers and managers across Product Engineering to understand how they build software today and to design solutions that actually fit the way they work
- Support our mission and values, including journalistic independence, and keep ethics and safety central to how we use AI in developer workflows
- This role includes limited on-call responsibilities; the schedule will be set when you join. 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:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 2+ years of experience improving developer experience through workflows, documentation, and capabilities of the internal platform
- Experience designing and building cloud native applications. We use Golang
- Hands-on experience building software using GenAI tools, like GitHub's Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code
- 3+ years of hands on experience managing and deploying resources in AWS
- 2+ years of experience managing workloads deployed on Kubernetes
- Experience in prompt engineering or building AI-powered tools