The New York Times
journalism
SeniorEngineer,DeveloperPlatformsGenAI
“Senior Engineer, Developer Platforms - GenAI at The New York Times. Skills: GenAI-powered developer tooling, GenAI developer platform, guardrails and observability for agentic workflows. 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, ”
What You'll Achieve.
help teams ship faster and more safely; pay down technical debt through structured migrations and platform modernization; turn effective internal practices into reusable tools and agents
Industry & Context.
limited on-call
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
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'll Do.
Design and build GenAI-powered developer tooling: prompts
and telemetry to understand how they’re used
Build and run the GenAI developer platform: Tools
and integrations leveraging LiteLLM to power both local and background/long-running agents
Own guardrails and observability for agentic workflows: integrate with Datadog
define sensible standards
and make sure agents interact with Jira
and internal platforms in a safe
Support our mission and values
including journalistic independence
and keep ethics and safety central to how we use AI in developer workflows
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
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
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