Software Engineer, Edge Platforms (Remote-US)

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. 

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Mission and Responsibilities: 

The Edge Platform team's services power 100% of NYT traffic and are the first gateways for all of our readers and journalists. The team's responsibilities encompass CDN, DNS, edge caching, and unified traffic ingress and API Gateway.

We use software written in Go to manage distributed systems, Kubernetes to host them, and modern CI & CD tooling to deploy them. Our traffic management solutions use cloud-native technologies including Gloo, Envoy, Istio, Cilium, and WebAssembly. We work in both AWS and GCP, and exclusively use Infrastructure-as-Code to accelerate development.

We are looking for software engineers interested in backend engineering and distributed systems to help allow the future of our traffic management and product personalization infrastructure. You will report to Senior EM for the Edge Platforms team. This job is open for remote work.

• You will write software in Go to help implement a remarkable developer onboarding experience for engineering teams
• You will write software to help and automate the transition from static caches to dynamic gateways
• You will improve performance and reliability of primary systems by improving upon software observability, monitoring, logging, and instrumentation
• You will design and implement automation to reduce operational toil for the team
• You will use cloud native technology and design patterns such as Kubernetes, Pub/Sub

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of programming experience (Java or Go or Rust) and skills that are backend focused.
• A basic understanding of cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.
• 1+ years of Experience with distributed system design.
• A passion towards automating things. We love repeatable processes and know that humans are prone to error. We'd like to automate deployments and monitoring releases
• A high degree of interest in Linux containers and smart clustering solutions like Kubernetes
• A bias towards helping people. Many teams will rely upon you for help to build and operate their systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Programming in Go, on a production application
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes, in a production environment
• Experience HashiCorp tooling, specifically Terraform and Vault
• Deploy Pipeline and CI/CD
• Configure, running open source software in production

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.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$104,000—$130,000 USD

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