Staff Software Engineer, Application Delivery

The New York Times is an independent journalism company focused on helping people understand the world. The Staff Software Engineer will set the technical direction for the Application Delivery shared platform, including CI/CD, artifact management, deployment workflows, and agent-ready delivery practices. The role will improve software delivery quality, security, observability, and velocity while mentoring engineers and partnering across teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical direction of software delivery as a shared product: shape paved paths in our shared platform that improve code health, release quality, and delivery speed for product teams
• Set the technical direction for agent‑ready delivery: design the policy, guardrails, and paved paths that turn AI‑generated and agent‑driven changes (migrations, test generation, pipeline maintenance) into safe, observable releases at scale by partnering with our Developer AI team
• Collaborate with Product, engineering leaders, and internal users to shape the roadmap for the delivery platform and bring measurable impact on quality and speed
• Deliver scalable, secure, and observable software delivery systems and workflows that improve reliability, and overall software quality and velocity
• Champion engineering excellence in delivery by setting best practices for testing, deployment strategies, progressive delivery, and observability that are easy to adopt through the platform
• Mentor engineers across the mission, contribute to hiring, and help foster an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture centered on shared platforms and high‑quality software delivery
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our mission and values and a commitment to our purpose to seek the truth and help people understand the world

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience building the technical strategy and driving software delivery (Github Actions, Argo CD or equivalent CI/CD systems) or similar platform work with broad organizational impact beyond operations
• Experience building and scaling a platform as a product for internal engineers with multi-tenancy serving many teams through self‑service paved paths, with attention to adoption, backward compatibility, and isolation/guardrails between tenants
• Demonstrated proficiency in building and maintaining production services in one or more general‑purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or Java), including code review and debugging complex issues
• 5+ years of experience with containers, Kubernetes, package management tools(Helm or equivalent), IAC tools(Terraform or equivalent), Gitops‑based deployment workflows and cloud services such as AWS, GCP
• Experience using delivery and productivity metrics (e.g., DORA, SPACE) and platform observability to measure and improve release quality and delivery
• Proficiency with GenAI‑assisted developer tooling (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, or Claude Code) and judgment about how to integrate agentic workflows into CI/CD safely
• Experience leading cross‑team technical work, communicating trade‑offs, and building understanding among diverse partners including Product, platform, and product engineering teams
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture
• Exposure to artifact/package management (e.g., Artifactory or similar) with attention to security, retention, cost, and ease of use for engineers