The New York Times
Senior Engineer, Developer Platforms and Generative AI
$140K–$180K
New York, NY · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 20, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering; 2+ years improving developer experience. Preferred: 3+ years managing and deploying AWS resources; 2+ years managing Kubernetes workloads.
About the job
Build and operate AI-augmented developer tools and platform capabilities that help engineering teams work faster and more safely.
What you'll do
- Design GenAI-powered developer tooling, including prompts, IDE integrations, rules, and usage telemetry.
- Build and run a GenAI developer platform with tools and integrations for agents, authentication, configuration, and LLM routing.
- Set guardrails and observability for agent workflows, and collaborate with engineering teams to develop safe, reusable solutions.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 2+ years improving developer experience through workflows, documentation, and internal platform capabilities.
- Experience designing and building cloud-native applications; the team uses Golang.
- Hands-on experience building software using GenAI tools such as GitHub's Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code.
Nice to have
- 3+ years managing and deploying resources in AWS.
- 2+ years managing workloads deployed on Kubernetes; experience in prompt engineering or building AI-powered tools.
Pay
$140,000 — $180,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Golang, LiteLLM, Datadog, DX, FinOut, Jira, GitHub, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build GenAI developer tooling and platform capabilities, including IDE integrations, prompts, agent workflows, LLM routing, and safety and observability guardrails.
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