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Senior Software Engineer
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 Overview & Responsibilities:
- You will design and implement edge infrastructure and traffic shaping techniques using CDN, service mesh, DNS and GeoIP routing, ensuring resiliency and scalability of our platforms.
- You will work within multiple areas of focus such as observability, secrets management, deployment pipeline, and containerization to research and propose solutions that accelerate development and improve efficiency.
- Accelerate adoption of Delivery Engineering tooling and solutions.
- Work with engineering teams to learn about needs, shaping solutions and helping them migrate to cloud infrastructure.
- Contribute to our mission of reaching 10+ million paid subscribers by 2025
Basic Qualifications:
- 3 or more years of solid programming experience in at least one of Go, Python, Java, Scala, JavaScript or TypeScript.
- Edge network design and implementation using CDNs, service mesh, DNS, and geo-targeting, built with a focus on resiliency and scale.
- An understanding of traffic management patterns used with cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.
- 1 or more years of experience in Docker and Kubernetes.
- 1 or more years of experience in HashiCorp tooling, specifically Terraform and Vault.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building Kubernetes operators in Go
- Content Distribution with Fastly
- Experience with DNS
- Load balancing, networking, DNS, and traffic management with AWS
- Work with application teams to deliver their apps and services to edge networks.
- A good grasp of multi-tier application architecture and concepts of networking, load balancing, monitoring and *nix OS.
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