Job Description

Job Description

The New York Times Data Engineering group is seeking inventive and motivated backend software engineers to join the Targeting Platform team. In this role, you will build critical data infrastructure that surfaces data and insights across the company

About Us

Our Data Engineering teams are at the intersection of business analytics, data warehousing, and software engineering. As Maxime Beauchemin wrote in The Rise of Data Engineering, ETL and data modeling have evolved, and the changes are about distributed systems, stream processing, and computation at scale. Theyre about working with data using the same practices that guide software engineering at large.A strong data foundation is essential for The New York Times and were responsible for it. We use our data infrastructure to power analytics and data products and to deliver relevant experiences to our customers in real-time. We enable our company to validate strategic decisions, make smarter choices, and react to the fast changing world. We are part of a New York based technology organization with a remote-friendly workplace that includes engineers around the world. We value transparency and openness, learning, community, and continuous improvement. Check out the Times Open blog, which is written by engineers and other technical team members, and follow @nytdevs on Twitter to see what were up to.

About the Job

We focus on the software engineering related to data segmentation, storage, centralized computation, and data APIs for the purpose of enriching our products targeting capabilities. We provide customers and partners with a data activation platform as well as specialized pipelines and data services. Our tools and services enable our group to scale and avoid blocking others. The Targeting Platform team is tasked with positioning NYT inline with a future where first-party data will be advantageous over vendored data. You will help enable real time targeting, messaging and experimentation as well as help ensure that NYT user's data is kept secure and follows all the privacy policies applicable. We support key business goals like growing our digital subscriber base, understanding how our customers use our products, and retaining our print subscribers.

As a backend engineer, you will:

* Run and support a production enterprise customer data platform

* Design and develop containerized data services

* Work with languages like Go, Java, Python, Bash, and SQL

* Build batch and streaming data pipelines with cloud-based data services like Googles BigQuery, DataFlow, AppEngine, and Pub/Sub

* Develop processes for automating, testing, and deploying your work

About You
To thrive in this role, you are excited about data and motivated to learn new technologies. You are comfortable collaborating with engineers from other teams, product owners, business teams, and data analysts and data scientists. You can own and shape your technical domain area and move the related business goals forward. You are eager to resolve upstream data issues at the source instead of applying workarounds. You analyze and test changes to our data architectures and processes, and determine what the possible downstream effects and potential impacts to data consumers will be.

Requirements

* 2+ years of experience building services with Go and Python

* Demonstrated experience working with Kubernetes in a public cloud (Google cloud Platforms Kubernetes Engine, GKE preferred)

* Experience working with key/value stores

* Knowledge of SREs tools and best practices

* Experience coding in Java (nice to have)

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.