Staff Software Engineer, Web Platforms

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: NYT Cooking enriches people's lives by making them better cooks. The Cooking team takes great pride in matching the editorial expertise and voice of The Times with superior digital functionality and design. We are a collaborative team that values inclusion, diversity, and personal growth. As a Staff Software Engineer on the NYT Cooking Web Platforms team, you will lead the web infrastructure that powers one of The Times's most beloved products. You'll work at the intersection of a product team with a deep editorial and consumer focus and a broader NYT engineering organization with shared platforms and standards. That means adapting shared NYT web infrastructure for Cooking's specific needs — recipe experiences, publishing workflows, high-traffic content delivery — while also contributing improvements back upstream that benefit engineering across the company. Responsibilities: Lead the technical strategy for NYT Cooking's web platform, including architecture decisions for performance, reliability, and developer experience across the Cooking web stack. Adapt and implement shared NYT web platform tools, libraries, and infrastructure for Cooking's use cases, and contribute improvements back to those shared platforms. Partner with Cooking's product, design, data, and editorial teams to translate product goals into sound technical solutions. Provide technical mentorship and peer support to engineers on the Cooking web team through pairing, design review, and code review. Partner with cross-functional leads across NYT technology teams to agree on shared standards and manage expectations across dependencies. Support on-call, incident response, and troubleshooting for platform-level escalations affecting Cooking's web products. 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 for NYT Cooking Web Team. Basic Qualifications: 2+ years of tech lead experience 7+ years of full-stack web development, including building tooling or infrastructure for other developers Experience building, operating, and monitoring performance-critical web systems at scale in GCP and/or AWS Expertise with the JS/TS ecosystem, including one or more Node.js frameworks (e.g. Express), frontend frameworks, and JS build tooling Experience implementing CI/CD using industry standards (we use Argo and Github Actions) Familiarity with Kanban or other Agile methodologies Preferred Qualifications: Experience working within a large monorepo and contributing to shared component libraries or internal platforms Experience with the support of relational and non-relational databases Experience building or integrating CMS tooling or publishing workflows Experience with consumer-facing, high-traffic content products REQ-019667 #LI-hybrid The annual base pay range for this role is between: $162,000 $190,000 USD For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs. For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be ... (truncated, view full listing at source)