Senior Engineer, Developer Platforms - GenAI

About the position The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. This role sits in Developer Platforms and reports to the Engineering Manager of the DevEx Platforms team. As a Senior Software Engineer on DevEx Platforms, you’ll build GenAI-augmented developer experiences and platform capabilities used across all of The New York Times. Your work will help teams ship faster and more safely, pay down technical debt through structured migrations and platform modernization, and turn effective internal practices into reusable tools and agents.

Responsibilities

• Design and build GenAI-powered developer tooling: prompts, IDE integrations, Cursor/Claude rules, and telemetry to understand how they’re used.
• Build and run the GenAI developer platform: Tools, services, and integrations leveraging LiteLLM to power both local and background/long-running agents, providing auth, configuration, and LLM routing.
• Own guardrails and observability for agentic workflows: integrate with Datadog, DX, and FinOut, define sensible standards, and make sure agents interact with Jira, GitHub, and internal platforms in a safe, auditable way.
• Work closely with engineers and managers across Product Engineering to understand how they build software today and to design solutions that actually fit the way they work.
• Support our mission and values, including journalistic independence, and keep ethics and safety central to how we use AI in developer workflows.
• 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.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience improving developer experience through workflows, documentation, and capabilities of the internal platform.
• Experience designing and building cloud native applications using Golang
• Hands-on experience building software using GenAI tools, like GitHub's Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code.

Nice-to-haves

• 3+ years of hands on experience managing and deploying resources in AWS.
• 2+ years of experience managing workloads deployed on Kubernetes.
• Experience in prompt engineering or building AI-powered tools.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
• a company-matching 401(k) plan
• paid vacation
• paid sick days
• paid parental leave
• tuition reimbursement
• professional development programs