高级软件工程师 - 前端视频广告
Senior Software Engineer - Frontend Video Advertising
《纽约时报》的使命是追求真相，帮助人们理解世界。这意味着独立新闻业是我们公司所有工作的核心。这就是为什么我们拥有一个享誉全球的新闻编辑室，派记者前往近160个国家进行实地报道。这也是为什么我们深入关注读者在从印刷版到音频，再到世界级数字和应用平台上的新闻体验。这也是为什么我们的商业战略以打造高质量的新闻，使其值得付费为核心。
职位简介
《纽约时报》数字广告使命团队正在寻找一名高级软件工程师，领导我们程序化视频广告能力的技术演进。你将与《纽约时报》产品团队合作，构建高性能、以视频为核心的广告体验，向广告体验工程经理汇报。在《纽约时报》，我们的产品团队为来自全球的超过1.5亿数字读者创造引人入胜的体验。数字广告使命团队开发展示和视频广告产品，使我们在市场上脱颖而出，为读者带来良好体验，并实现大规模销售。
职责：
作为专注于视频和程序化技术的高级个人贡献者，你将：
- 构建视频广告产品：在《纽约时报》的产品中创建无缝的外流（阅读中、页面内）和内流视频体验。
- 身份识别与隐私：设计并实现程序化堆栈中的身份解析解决方案，确保高拍卖匹配率，同时保持严格的隐私标准。
- 标准与合规：实施并推广视频交付的行业标准，如VAST或VPAID，确保在多平台环境中的兼容性。
- 性能监控：监督视频广告的端到端性能，重点关注核心网页指标，并减少外流单元的“首次帧时间”。
- 指导与质量：倡导代码库的质量，指导工程师理解程序化拍卖的细节，并营造卓越的环境。
- 展现对新闻独立性的支持和理解，以及对我们追求真相、帮助人们理解世界的使命的坚定承诺。
- 该职位向广告体验高级工程经理汇报。
基本要求：
- 经验：您拥有5年以上软件工程经验，重点在广告技术领域。
- 程序化专业知识：您了解程序化广告技术。
查看英文原文
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 Digital Advertising Mission at The New York Times is looking for a senior software engineer to lead the technical evolution of our programmatic video advertising capabilities. You will collaborate across NYT product teams to build performant, video-first ad experiences, reporting to the Ad Experience Engineering Manager. At The New York Times, our product teams create engaging experiences for over 150 million digital readers from around the globe. The Digital Advertising Mission develops display and video ad products that differentiate us in the market, perform for our readers, and sell at scale.
Responsibilities:
As a senior individual contributor specializing in video and programmatic technology, you will:
- Architect Video Ad Products: Create seamless outstream (in-read, in-page) and instream video experiences across NYT products.
- Identity and Privacy: Design and implement solutions for identity resolution within the programmatic stack, ensuring high auction match rates auctions while maintaining strict privacy standards.
- Standards and Compliance: Implement and promote industry standards for video delivery, such as VAST or VPAID, ensuring compatibility across our multi-platform environment.
- Performance Monitoring: Oversee end-to-end performance of video ads, focusing on Core Web Vitals and reducing the "time to first frame" for outstream units.
- Mentorship and Quality: Advocate for codebase quality, mentor engineers on the nuances of programmatic auctions, and foster an environment of excellence.
- 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.
- This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager, Ad Experience.
Basic Qualifications:
- Experience: You have 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a heavy focus on AdTech.
- Programmatic Expertise: You understand programmatic advertising including bidder configuration, universal identity providers (e.g., UID2, LiveRamp), and optimizing auctions in web and mobile environments.
- Video Specialization: You understand outstream and programmatic video workflows. You are comfortable working with video players and ad-signaling protocols.
- Technical Experience: You are proficient in TypeScript/JavaScript, front-end library CI/CD tooling, and version control.
- Yield and Performance Driven: You understand how technical decisions, such as identity matching and auction depth, impact programmatic yield and user latency.
- AI Experience: Hands-on experience with agentic or AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Claude Code or Cursor) including the ability to effectively direct, iterate on, and verify AI-generated output.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Hybrid or web viewed content within Apps.
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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Compensation and Benefits For This Role:
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.
The annual base pay range for this role is between:
$140,000—$160,000 USD
Candidate Use of GenAI Tools:
We’re excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.
If you’re an engineering candidate, we’ll let you know what specific GenAI tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.
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