Senior Engineer, Developer Platforms, Generative AI

The New York Times

Senior Software Engineer building GenAI-augmented developer experiences for The New York Times. Led by Engineering Manager of the DevEx Platforms team, focusing on developer workflows and platform capabilities.

Posted 7/22/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $140,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and building GenAI-powered developer tooling and cloud native applications, with a strong focus on improving developer experience and ensuring ethical AI usage in workflows.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Golang ProgrammingGenAI Tool DevelopmentCloud Native Application DesignDeveloper Experience ImprovementIntegration with Jira and GitHub

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringGenAI ToolsCloud Native ApplicationsTelemetry ImplementationAgentic Workflows

Soft Skills

CollaborationEthical Decision-MakingCommitment to Mission

Tools & Technologies

DatadogCursorClaudeGitHubInternal Platforms

Industry Keywords

Developer ToolingObservabilityWorkflowsDocumentationAI Ethics

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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, configuration, and LLM routing.
Own guardrails and observability for agentic workflows: integrate with Datadog, DX, and FinOut, define sensible standards, and make sure agents interact with Jira, GitHub, and internal platforms in a safe, auditable way.
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.
Support 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

Requirements

What you’ll 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. We use Golang
Hands-on experience building software using GenAI tools, like GitHub's Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental and vision benefits
Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
company-matching 401(k) plan
paid vacation
paid sick days
paid parental leave
tuition reimbursement
professional development programs