Staff Software Engineer, Application Delivery

7+ years of experience building the technical strategy and driving CI/CD(Github Actions, Argo CD or equivalent) and software delivery with broad organizational impact beyond operations

5+ years of experience building and maintaining production services in one or more general‑purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or Java), including code review and debugging complex issues

7+ years of experience with containers, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Git‑based deployment workflows and cloud services such as AWS, GCP

Experience leading cross‑team technical work, communicating trade‑offs, and building understanding among diverse partners including Product, platform, and product engineering teams

Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture

The Developer Platforms mission at The New York Times builds the foundational platforms, tooling, and paved paths that help product teams ship high‑quality experiences quickly and safely. Our Application Delivery team provides the shared software delivery platform (CI/CD and artifact management) and deployment workflows used by many product teams across the company.

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of software delivery as a product.

This is a hybrid role based two days in our New York City headquarters. You will report to the Engineering Manager of the DevEx Application Delivery team.

Lead the technical direction of software delivery as a shared product: shape paved paths in our platform that improve code health, release quality, and delivery speed for product teams

Collaborate with Product, engineering leaders, and internal users to shape the roadmap for the delivery platform and bring measurable impact on quality and speed.