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Senior Engineer, Developer Platforms and Generative AI

The New York Times · New York, NY; Remote - USA

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
87 days
The New York Times's roles stay open a median of 87 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of The New York Times's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at The New York Times
high
168 stale, 0 reposted of 168 open
Hiring momentum
243 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-29

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from The New York Times's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for The New York Times.

About this role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the DevEx Platforms team at The New York Times, you will design and build GenAI-augmented developer tools and platforms that enhance the developer experience for over 750 engineers. Your responsibilities include creating cloud-native applications, integrating AI tools, and ensuring safe interactions with internal systems. You will collaborate closely with other teams to modernize workflows and support the company's mission of journalistic independence.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of The New York Times as an employer.

What you need

  • 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 using Golang
  • Hands-on experience building software using GenAI tools, like GitHub's Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code

Nice to have

  • 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

What you get

  • In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock
  • Medical, dental and vision benefits
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
  • Company-matching 401(k) plan
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Paid vacation

Worth weighing

  • No specific information on the tech stack beyond Golang and GenAI tools
  • Limited on-call responsibilities, schedule to be determined upon joining
  • Candidates are required to submit their own work without using GenAI tools during the application process

Summarised from The New York Times's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by The New York Times on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-29. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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