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Job description
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
The GraphQL Platform team builds and operates The New York Times' federated API layer that helps product and engineering teams deliver trusted journalism and experiences across our products. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to shape the architecture and technical direction of this mission-critical platform as it scales in traffic, complexity, and the number of teams building on it.
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy and architecture for the GraphQL federation platform.
- Design capabilities to improve reliability, performance, traffic management, and cost efficiency.
- Establish schema and operation governance, including guardrails for query complexity and safe federation.
- Resolve system bottlenecks using observability, load testing, and incident analysis.
- Enhance developer experience through automation, documentation, tooling, and safe AI workflows.
- Partner across product, infrastructure, and feature teams to align platform capabilities with product needs.
- Participate in on-call response, root-cause analysis, and operational improvements.
- Mentor engineers and promote technical standards through design reviews, code reviews, and feedback.
- 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 Senior Software Engineering Manager.
Basic Qualifications
- You have 7+ years experience building and operating production APIs or distributed services.
- Deep practical experience developing and scaling GraphQL APIs.
- Experience with Apollo Router, Apollo Federation, schema composition, router plugins or extensions, and supergraph operations.
- Software development skills in at least one statically typed backend language; our platform uses Go.
- Experience leading complex technical projects across multiple teams and communicating with non-technical partners.
- Experience improving reliability, performance, or observability in production systems, and using data to guide technical decisions.
- You value learning and improvement, sharing knowledge, and welcoming constructive feedback.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building schema or query governance, developer tooling, or paved paths for service teams.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development or GraphQL-aware tooling, including the security and quality controls needed to use it responsibly.
- Experience with high-traffic APIs, Kubernetes or cloud-native systems, autoscaling, load testing, caching, or CDN integration.
This is a hybrid role based in our NYC headquarters. You could typically expect to come in the office two days per week.
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Compensation and Benefits For This Role:
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 USDCandidate 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.
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