Senior Data Engineer, Customer-Facing Data Products
The New York Times CompanyNew York, NY · full time · Senior
$140,000 – $160,000
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What this role is
This role involves building real-time data pipelines and APIs to power customer-facing features at The New York Times, serving behavioral and targeting use cases. It suits experienced data engineers who excel at designing scalable, production-grade streaming systems and can mentor teammates while collaborating across teams.
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Skills this role names
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Apache Flink
- Apache Kafka
- CI/CD
- Drone
- FastAPI
- Flask
- Git
- GitHub Actions
- GraphQL
- gRPC
- Python
- REST API
- SQL
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What they ask for
Required
- 5+ years shipping real-time data engineering solutions with event-driven architectures and stream-processing frameworks
- Cloud-native architecture experience (AWS preferred)
- Modern API design knowledge (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
- Python programming fluency
- Version control and CI/CD tool experience (GitHub Actions, Drone)
Nice to have
- Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or Spark Streaming pipeline development
- Python API framework experience (FastAPI, Flask)
- SQL experience
- Modern data platform knowledge (data lakehouse, medallion architectures)
- Cross-functional collaboration with product and partner teams