Staff Software Engineer, Application Delivery job in New York

The Developer Platforms mission at The New York Times builds the foundational platforms, tooling, and paved paths that help product teams ship high-quality experiences quickly and safely. Our Application Delivery team owns the shared software delivery platform (CI/CD, artifact management) and deployment workflows used by hundreds of engineers across News, Cooking, Games and Audio to ship software.

As the Times leans into AI-assisted and agentic development, Application Delivery is where those changes become real. You will set the technical direction for how AI-generated and agent-driven change flows safely, observably, and at scale through CI/CD.

You’ll help teams reduce release risk with modern deployment patterns, and turn effective delivery practices into reusable pipelines and templates that scale across the organization, much like our GenAI platform roles turn internal practices into reusable tools and agents. When you improve this platform, you change how The New York Times ships software.

You will report to the Engineering Manager of the DevEx Application Delivery team., * 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., Please beware of fraudulent job postings. Scammers may post fraudulent job opportunities, and they may even make fraudulent employment offers. This is done by bad actors to collect personal information and money from victims. All legitimate job opportunities from The New York Times will be accessible through The New York Times careers site. The New York Times will not ask job applicants for financial information or for payment, and will not refer you to a third party to do so. You should never send money to anyone who suggests they can provide employment with The New York Times.

• 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.

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:

$162,000-$195,000 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.

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

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.