thenewyorktimes
Senior Data Engineer, Customer-Facing Data Products
At a Glance
- Location
- New York, United States
- Work Regime
- hybrid
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Posted
- 2026-05-01T12:35:52-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
- Finance
- Medical
Requirements
5+ years of full-time data engineering experience shipping real-time solutions with event-driven architectures and stream-processing frameworks
Experience with cloud native architectures (AWS preferred), including service offerings and tools
Understanding of modern API design principles and technologies, including REST, GraphQL, and gRPC for data serving
Programming fluency with Python
Experience using version control and CI/CD tools, such as Github Actions and Drone
Experience developing streaming pipelines with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or Spark Streaming
Responsibilities
The New York Times is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join the Customer-Facing Data Products team to develop real-time data pipelines and APIs that process events and serve aggregated data for customer-facing use cases.
You will report to the Engineering Manager for the Customer-Facing Data Products team and build widely reusable solutions to help partner teams solve our most important real-time needs, including behavioral and targeting use cases.
Develop real-time data pipelines using event-driven architectures and streaming technologies.
Ingest and organize structured and unstructured data for widespread reuse across patterns.
Engineer and scale high availability data serving capabilities to meet customer-facing needs.
Implement mechanisms to ensure data quality, observability and governance best practices.