高级工程师，开发平台与生成式AI
Senior Engineer, Developer Platforms and Generative AI
The New York Times 的使命是追求真相并帮助人们理解世界。这意味着独立新闻报道是我们公司一切工作的核心。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品到音频，再到世界级数字和应用目的地的整个过程中如何体验我们的新闻报道。这也是为什么我们的商业战略聚焦于让新闻报道足够优秀，值得付费。
关于团队
Developer Platforms 组织通过内部开发者平台为 NYT 产品工程中的 100+ 团队和 750+ 工程师提供云基础设施和工具。DevEx Platforms 团队（6 名工程师）专注于开发者体验和工作流自动化。
我们现在正在利用 Claude Code、Cursor 和 Copilot 等工具，扩展更多 AI 辅助的开发者工作流，以安全、可衡量的方式支持调试、迁移、测试生成和日常开发。
该职位位于 Developer Platforms，向 DevEx Platforms 团队的 Engineering Manager 汇报。
关于该职位
作为 DevEx Platforms 团队的 Senior Software Engineer，你将构建用于纽约时报所有部门的 GenAI 增强的开发者体验和平台功能。
你的工作将帮助团队更快更安全地交付，通过结构化迁移和平台现代化来减少技术债务，并将有效的内部实践转化为可重用的工具和代理。
你会做什么
- 设计并构建 GenAI 驱动的开发者工具：提示、IDE 集成、Cursor/Claude 规则以及用于了解其使用情况的遥测功能。
- 构建并运行 GenAI 开发者平台：利用 LiteLLM 提供本地和后台/长时间运行代理的工具、服务和集成，提供认证、配置和 LLM 路由。
- 负责代理工作流的护栏和可观测性：与 Datadog、DX 和 FinOut 集成，定义合理的标准，并确保代理以安全、可审计的方式与 Jira、GitHub 和内部平台交互。
- 与产品工程部门的工程师和经理密切合作，了解他们当前的软件构建方式，并设计真正符合他们工作方式的解决方案。
- 支持我们的使命和价值观，包括新闻独立性，并将伦理和安全作为我们在开发者工作流中使用 AI 的核心。
- 该职位包含有限的值班责任
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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 Team
The Developer Platforms organization provides cloud infrastructure and tooling to 100+ teams and 750+ engineers in NYT Product Engineering through an internal developer platform. The DevEx Platforms team (6 engineers) focuses on developer experience and workflow automation.
We’re now expanding into more AI-assisted developer workflows using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot to support debugging, migrations, test generation, and everyday development in a safe, measurable way.
This role sits in Developer Platforms and reports to the Engineering Manager of the DevEx Platforms team.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer on DevEx Platforms, you’ll build GenAI-augmented developer experiences and platform capabilities used across all of The New York Times.
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.
What You’ll Do
- 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.
- You will report to the Engineering Manager of the DevEx Platforms team
Basic Qualifications:
- 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
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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
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.
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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—$180,000 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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