Full-Time

Senior Data Engineer

Customer-Facing Data Products

The New York Times

The New York Times

10,001+ employees

Subscription-based digital and print journalism

Compensation Overview

$140k - $160k/yr

+ Annual bonus + Restricted stock

New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid role based at the New York City headquarters.

Category
Data & Analytics (1)
Required Skills
gRPC
FastAPI
Python
Apache Flink
GitHub Actions
SQL
Apache Kafka
GraphQL
Data Engineering
Version Control
AWS
Observability
REST APIs
Flask
Data Governance
DevOps

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Requirements
  • At least 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, including service offerings and tools; AWS is preferred.
  • 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 continuous integration and continuous delivery tools, such as GitHub Actions and Drone.
Responsibilities
  • 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 highly available data-serving capabilities to meet customer-facing needs.
  • Implement mechanisms to ensure data quality, observability, and governance best practices.
  • Collaborate with software engineers and infrastructure teams to improve pipeline performance and integrate solutions into production environments.
  • Grow colleagues' skills by providing clear technical feedback through pairing, design, and code review.
  • Stay current with the latest technologies and advancements in streaming data processing and related technologies.
  • Demonstrate support and understanding of journalistic independence and commitment to the mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience developing streaming pipelines with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or Spark Streaming.
  • Experience building APIs using Python frameworks such as FastAPI and Flask.
  • Experience with SQL.
  • Understanding of modern data platforms, including data lakehouse and medallion architectures.
  • Experience collaborating with product and partner teams to meet shared goals.

The New York Times provides digital and print news across politics, business, technology, culture, and more for a global audience. It earns revenue from recurring subscriptions for digital and print editions and from online advertising, including sponsored content. It enhances value with subscriber services like NYT Cooking and other offerings, delivered through a digital platform, newsletters, and mobile apps. Its goal is to deliver trusted information and insightful analysis at scale while expanding its digital reach and subscriber value.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1850

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What believers are saying

  • Q2 2026 revenue rose 11.2% to $762.5 million, with digital ads up 20.7%.
  • Q1 2026 added 310,000 digital-only subscribers, lifting total subscribers to 13.08 million.
  • Price hikes lifted ARPU to $9.94, while family bundles expand household monetization.

What critics are saying

  • EEOC sued NYT on May 5, 2026 over alleged white male promotion discrimination.
  • NYT countersued EEOC on July 10, 2026, extending costly leadership distraction into 2027.
  • OpenAI and Microsoft litigation threatens huge legal expense and exposes NYT content monetization limits.

What makes The New York Times unique

  • 13.35 million digital subscribers and a 2027 target anchor The Times’ bundle scale.
  • Family subscriptions bundle News, Games, Cooking, Audio, Wirecutter, and The Athletic into one account.
  • NYT owns premium habits like Wordle, Cooking, and Wirecutter that deepen daily engagement.

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