Software Engineer, CI/CD Platforms

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Mission and Responsibilities
The Delivery Engineering department is essential to The New York Times' engineering organization. Its responsibilities are profoundly technical and include maintaining cloud infrastructure, building centralized platforms, improving developer experience, maintaining CI/CD systems, reliability, observability, and developer tooling, to name a few. In Delivery Engineering, you will be a part of the Continuous Delivery Platform team within the Developer Productivity pillar. We provide services, tooling, and automation that improve the developer experience, thus empowering engineers to spend more time building the products that grow our business with better confidence, efficiency, reliability, and quality. You will report to the Engineering Manager of the CDP team.
As a team member, your daily job would include improving and maintaining our CI/CD systems, identifying the needs of developers and incorporating these needs/processes to our CI/CD systems to make them more efficient. You will focus on modernizing the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment platform that allows engineering teams at the New York Times to ship code with high velocity and quality.

• You will Research, maintain core infrastructure for a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment platform that supports hundreds of builds and deployments per day.
• You will Work within areas such as deployment pipeline, containerization, observability, secrets management and research, strategize and propose solutions that meet requirements, reduce friction for product engineers, and consolidate existing solutions.
• You will Engage with engineers across the entire department to make incremental improvements to our tech strategy and the implementation of our platform.
• You will Promote developer productivity by rolling out capabilities that maximize self-sufficiency and minimize the toil in learning those capabilities in building scalable applications with high speed, quality, and performance.
• You will Create presentations, documentation, and blog posts to be accessible and understood by engineers of all levels and departments to foster engagement with our solutions while building interest and excitement about our work.
• You will Guide product feature teams on the usage of Delivery Engineering tooling and solutions.

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in development or DevOps
• Familiarity with configuring CI/CD systems like Github Actions/Drone/Jenkins, ArgoCD
• 2+ years of experience doing full-stack or backend development in Go, Python or Java.
• 1+ years of Experience deploying applications in Kubernetes and familiarity of services on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience using platforms such as Spinnaker, Harness, CodeFresh, Akuity or ArgoCD.
• Provisioning infrastructure using Terraform.
• Familiarity with container orchestration technologies like Docker.
• Configuring observability tools such as DataDog and Prometheus.
• This role may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:
$104,000 - $130,000 USD
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