Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 2/29/2024

Mission Overview & Responsibilities: 

Our 60 product teams across The New York Times produce operational data that is shared with our data ecosystem allowing data engineers, analysts and data architects to enrich and aggregate this data into meaningful, long-living data products that expose key metrics – allowing the business to make important decisions and report the health of the business to all partners.

Our Team, Warehouse Platforms, builds the platform tooling delivering the capabilities of transformation, orchestration, infrastructure, data management, observability and governance. Our platform enables data producers and data consumers to reliably share their operational data and create high-quality domain-data products. 

What You'll Do:

  • Develop platform tooling to enable data applications and data teams to build data products that expose high-quality raw and modeled data for historical analytics and business use
  • You will build self-service platforms to power The Times' Technology and Data teams with a focus on simplifying complexity and providing a smooth user experience
  • You will partner with other teams to develop and deliver platform capabilities of transformation, governance, observability and orchestration
  • You will organize and guide balanced decisions across your peers for architecture, design, and implementation details
  • You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of the Data Products Platform team

Basic Qualifications: 

  • 2 years of overall experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) and configuration, especially with cloud-native data-warehousing solutions like Snowflake or BigQuery
  • Experience in at least one programming language - Python or Go
  • Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code platform
  • Experience with GitOps, CI/CD pipelines and build tools such as Drone

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Familiarity with modern-data-stack tools (dbt, Fivetran, MonteCarlo)
  • Experience building and shipping platform tooling and facilitating wide adoption in an organization with a diverse set of users
  • Experience with observability tools such as Datadog and Sumo Logic
  • Experience building frontend applications
  • Familiarity with data warehousing and data modeling

This is a hybrid role located in New York City.

This role may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.

REQ-016255

Salary.com Estimation for Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure in New York, NY
$120,017 to $146,163
If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution. Compensation Planning
Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right. Surveys & Data Sets

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs that are on the Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure career path.

Click the checkbox next to the jobs that you are interested in.

Income Estimation: 
$117,183 - $142,913
Income Estimation: 
$140,452 - $170,399
Income Estimation: 
$117,183 - $142,913
Income Estimation: 
$140,452 - $170,399
Income Estimation: 
$73,896 - $89,593
Income Estimation: 
$92,997 - $114,279

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs with skills like those required for the Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure.

Click the checkbox next to the jobs that you are interested in.

  • Bug/Defect Analysis Skill

    • Income Estimation: $71,402 - $95,061
    • Income Estimation: $72,850 - $104,000
  • Debugging Skill

    • Income Estimation: $71,402 - $95,061
    • Income Estimation: $72,850 - $104,000
View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles Skills Library

Job openings at The New York Times

The New York Times
Hired Organization Address New York, NY Full Time
About the Role: The New York Times is looking for an Android Engineer to join the Games mobile team. You'll join a team ...
The New York Times
Hired Organization Address New York, NY Full Time
The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent jour...
The New York Times
Hired Organization Address New York, NY Full Time
About the Role The Cards team at The New York Times is looking for a collaborative full-stack software engineer who is i...
The New York Times
Hired Organization Address New York, NY Full Time
About the Role: The New York Times is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Data Ad Products team in our Di...

Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure jobs in the New York, NY area that may be a better fit.