Senior Engineer, Developer Platforms and Generative AI
AI summary of the role
Senior engineer on the DevEx Platforms team at The New York Times, building GenAI-augmented developer tooling and platform capabilities for 100+ teams and 750+ engineers.
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What you’ll do
- Design and build GenAI-powered developer tooling: prompts, IDE integrations, Cursor/Claude rules, and telemetry.
- Build and run the GenAI developer platform using LiteLLM for local and background agents, including auth, configuration, and LLM routing.
- Own guardrails and observability for agentic workflows, integrating with Datadog, DX, and FinOut.
- Ensure agents interact safely with Jira, GitHub, and internal platforms.
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 2+ years of experience improving developer experience through workflows, documentation, and internal platform capabilities.
- Experience designing and building cloud native applications (using Golang).
- Hands-on experience building software with GenAI tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code.
Technologies
Golang · AWS · Kubernetes · LiteLLM · Claude Code · Cursor · GitHub Copilot · Datadog · Jira · GitHub
About The New York Times
Subscription-led news and lifestyle media company monetizing journalism, games, sports, cooking, audio and shopping advice through direct subscribers, ads and licensing.
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
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
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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 technica [... source excerpt omitted ...] upport 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 plat [... source excerpt omitted ...] e 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. #LI-Hybrid REQ-020128 Compensation and Benefits For This Role: In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for variable pay, such as
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