About this role
The Marketing engineering team at The New York Times builds orchestration systems, integrations, and AI capabilities that help internal teams work faster and in more data-driven ways. Software engineering professionals in this position will provide technical leadership and systems thinking while leading the end-to-end design, implementation, and management of the marketing campaign lifecycle system and internal tools. This role exists to integrate AI agents, automations, and LLM-powered flows into daily marketing workflows while ensuring reliable data pipelines and infrastructure.
Candidates who thrive in this environment possess a strong background in backend or full-stack development, combined with practical experience integrating large language models into production software. The ideal individual acts as a technical advisor to marketing partners, translating complex business needs into robust technical designs and data models. A demonstrated understanding and support for the company's journalistic mission and values are essential for success.
What you will do
- Write high-quality, secure, and well-tested code while contributing to standards and documentation for Marketing infrastructure, data models, and tools.
- Build the campaign lifecycle orchestration backbone, integrations, and internal tools connecting project management, collaboration, creative, media, and email platforms.
- Act as a technical advisor to Marketing partners, translating needs into robust designs and integrating AI agents and LLM-powered flows into workflows.
- Design and operate data pipelines and models that ingest marketing and performance data into a data layer to support experimentation and analytics.
- Deliver abstractions and APIs that enable AI systems and users to generate campaign wrap-ups, insights, and next-test recommendations.
- Lead reliability, observability, and incident response for integrations, data pipelines, and automations, covering monitoring, logging, and feature flags.
What you need
- Have five or more years of software engineering experience focusing on backend or full-stack development for distributed systems and APIs.
- Demonstrate proficiency in Python or TypeScript/Node.js with experience building integrations, services, data pipelines, and internal tools using modern frontend frameworks like React.
- Bring five or more years of experience working with REST and GraphQL APIs, OAuth2, webhooks, and event-driven patterns.
- Possess hands-on experience building applications with large language models, including prompt flows, retrieval-augmented generation, or AI agents using approved tools.
- Have one or more years of experience delivering production systems on cloud platforms such as AWS, including serverless services and CI/CD practices.
- Hold three or more years of experience working with marketing and performance data, supporting experimentation workflows, and designing metrics and dashboards.
Nice to have
- One or more years of experience implementing or integrating campaign orchestration and workflow automation tools like Notion, Monday.com, or Asana
- Experience working with or integrating marketing technology stacks such as customer data platforms, CRMs, and ad platforms
- Experience partnering with data engineers and analysts to design schemas and experimentation frameworks for BI and AI use cases
- AWS serverless expertise across Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, SQS, SNS, and CloudFront
- Experience with Terraform, Docker, DataDog, BigQuery, Hex, Mode, and Statsig
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
- Company-matching 401(k) plan
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid vacation, sick days, and parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs
Skills and tech stack
Questions candidates ask
What is the salary range for this role?
The annual base pay range for this role is between $130,000 and $150,000 USD. Depending on the role, you may also be eligible for variable pay such as an annual bonus and restricted stock.
What technologies and tools will I be working with?
You will work with Python or TypeScript/Node.js, modern frontend frameworks like React, REST/GraphQL APIs, and large language models for prompt flows and AI agents. The infrastructure relies heavily on AWS serverless services, Terraform, Docker, and observability tooling like DataDog.
Who will I report to in this position?
You will report to the Director, Advertising Systems. In this position, you will be embedded with the Marketing team to provide technical leadership and systems thinking.
What qualifications are expected regarding cloud and data experience?
Candidates must have at least one year of experience delivering production systems on cloud platforms with AWS preferred, including serverless services and CI/CD practices. Additionally, three or more years of experience working with marketing and performance data to support experimentation and analytics workflows is required.
The application is on the official The New York Times careers page.
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