thenewyorktimes
Engineering Manager, Community
At a Glance
- Location
- New York, United States
- Work Regime
- hybrid
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Posted
- 2026-07-14T17:42:48-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
- Finance
- Medical
Requirements
2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager leading high‑functioning engineering teams.
Experience managing cross‑disciplinary engineers (for example, backend, web, native or DevOps) and overseeing mission‑critical production operations for user‑facing systems.
Prior experience as a senior or staff‑level engineer building and operating backend services and/or native app features in a production environment.
Experience collaborating with product, design and data partners on roadmap planning and delivery.
Experience applying AI‑assisted or agentic workflows in engineering, such as AI‑augmented moderation, analytics or developer tooling for Community systems.
Experience with user‑generated content platforms, commenting systems or moderation pipelines in Community or Trust & Safety domains.
Responsibilities
This team is responsible for the end‑to‑end experience of our reader participation features, including commenting, conversations and other forms of reader engagement on web and native apps.
We build both the scalable backend services that power these experiences and the internal tools that allow our newsroom and moderation partners to steward safe, productive discussions.
As we evolve how readers participate in and around our journalism, this team will lead the expansion from traditional article comments into richer, more conversational experiences across platforms.
As an Engineering Manager, you will not just maintain a set of services.
You will shape the team and the technology required to support new participation models.
You will oversee a diverse technical stack ranging from low‑latency backend integrations and moderation pipelines to the user‑facing tools that make our Community platform powerful and intuitive for editors, moderators and internal partners.