The New York Times is hiring a

Software Engineer, Identity

New York, United States

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. 

About the Role

The Identity team builds and maintains a world-class authentication platform that enables the creation and continued access of millions of user accounts, as securely as possible. Becoming a registered user is a very important first step of our customer journey, we support our subscription business model by providing the platforms necessary for all product teams to maintain a unique user experience for our readers. We always aim to be the experts in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) technologies, so that we can engineer pragmatic solutions designed to keep our user login and registration experience as smooth, reliable, and secure as possible.

We are looking for a creative engineer to contribute to the development of our next-generation identity platforms used by hundreds of millions of New York Times readers on a daily basis. You will build user-based systems that serve as a foundation to fuel many other services within the Times, with some of the most challenging performance and availability requirements. You will report to the Sr Engineering Manager of Identity, Core Platforms.

Responsibilities:

  • You will Create and support scalable, performant and fault-tolerant systems
  • Design intuitive data schemas to represent concepts of user identity and accounts
  • You will design and implement GraphQL resolvers and their backend services
  • You will develop standards, libraries and processes that allow other teams to integrate with our platform smoothly for outstanding developer experience. 
  • You will improve and uphold our code quality through test automation, code reviews, and other best practices

Basic Qualifications:

  • 2+ years of experience building scalable, performant and fault-tolerant cloud-based distributed systems (AWS/GCP)
  • 3+years of experience with Go programming language
  • 2+ years of Experience designing, configuring, and deploying applications to Kubernetes/EKS
  • 2+ years of Experience developing GraphQL APIs using gqlgen, in a federated architecture 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Knowledge of SQL and relational databases
  • Experience developing data tiers using cloud-managed services such as DocumentDB, MongoDB, DynamoDB, or equivalent. 
  • Integrate and troubleshoot complex systems using tools such as DataDog and SumoLogic
  • Experience with data tooling and services such as dbt and Fivetran
  • Modern DevOps practices and Infrastructure-as-code (we use Terraform)
  • Service-to-service authentication and communication

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

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.

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