Senior Data Engineer, Customer-Facing Data Products at The New York Times

Department: Software Engineering

Compensation

$140,000 – $160,000/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: New York, New York
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: May 1, 2026

Description

The New York Times is hiring a Senior Data Engineer for its Customer-Facing Data Products team to build real-time data pipelines, APIs, and scalable data-serving solutions for behavioral and targeting use cases. The role requires at least five years of full-time data engineering experience, cloud-native architecture knowledge, Python fluency, and experience with version control and CI/CD tools. It is a hybrid position based in New York City, with limited on-call hours and an annual base salary of $140,000 to $160,000 USD, plus variable pay and benefits.

Required Skills

Event-driven architecture
Streaming technologies
Python
REST
GraphQL
gRPC
CI/CD
Apache Kafka
Apache Flink
Spark Streaming
SQL
FastAPI

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Required Previous Experiences: 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 AWS
Experience with version control and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and Drone
Preferred Qualifications: Experience developing streaming pipelines with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or Spark Streaming
Experience building APIs using Python frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask
Experience with SQL
Understanding of modern data platforms, including data lakehouse and medallion architectures
Experience collaborating with product and partner teams
Translation Company Name: The New York Times

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