Senior Software Engineer

Company: The New York Times
Location: New York
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

About the RoleWe are looking for a creative and experienced engineer to contribute to the development of our centralized identity platform used by hundreds of millions of New York Times readers on a daily basis. You will build systems that serve as a foundation for many other services within the Times to depend upon, 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 design intuitive and secure APIs for user authentication, authorization, and data access.
• 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.
• You will collaborate with teammates and partners to refine requirements and translate them into pragmatic technical solutions.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.Basic Qualifications:
  • Proficient in authentication / authorization protocols and frameworks such as OAuth, OIDC, SSO, JWT
  • 4+ years of experience building scalable, performant and fault-tolerant cloud-based distributed systems
  • 4+ years of experience building web applications with Go and Java
  • Proficiency in Node/Typescript
  • Frontend experience with React.jsPreferred Qualifications:
    • Experience designing, configuring, and deploying applications to Kubernetes/EKS
    • Maintain and troubleshoot complex systems using tools such as DataDog and SumoLogic
    • Knowledge of SQL, relational databases, and distributed data architectures (including BigQuery)
    • Modern DevOps practices and Infrastructure-as-code (we use Terraform)This role requires limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.#LI-HybridREQ-017686
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Keywords: The New York Times, East Orange , Senior Software Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , New York, New Jersey