Job Description

Job Description

At the New York Times, we use machine learning in the software we build and deploy to power content recommendations, personalization, subscription optimization, and newsroom tools. These services affect the experiences of 150 million digital readers that come to The New York Times every month.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will help develop machine learning pipelines and backend infrastructure. Some examples of projects where your skills are needed:

* Build pipelines to train and test algorithms to provide real-time content recommendations

* Build ranking and classification APIs to support products at scale

* Generalize and extend our contextual bandits capabilities

* Scale and extend feature pipeline and feature store systems

* Help deploy multiple models for optimizing subscription and ad revenue growth

Since the team develops and operates their systems in production, you will have ownership of deploying, monitoring, and supporting our apps at scale.

By joining our team, you will strengthen a company whose mission matters more than ever. Youll help ensure that the journalism of a 1700 person newsroom reaches as many people as possible. We, in the technology organization, are always introspecting to improve our culture, understand how we work and be open about how we build things hoping to learn more from others. We believe in a diverse environment and we work very hard to make it happen. We value everyones ideas and encourage people to bring their ideas out.

Requirements:

* 5+ years of relevant experience, including experience operating large systems in a production environment

* Experience with building real-world machine learning applications (NLP, recommendation systems, bandits, etc)

* Development skills in Python and/or Go

* Experience with GCP or other cloud computing platforms

* Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD

* Experience with data processing, validation, and scheduling requirements necessary in a ML production environment

* Experience working on cross-functional projects

* Experience mentoring other software engineers through design sessions and code reviews

* Experience with any of the following technologies and frameworks is ideal but not required: Terraform, Airflow, SQL/BigQuery, CI/CD (Drone), TensorFlow, scikit-learn

You don't need to know it all and there will be many opportunities to learn.

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local Fair Chance laws.