The New York Times
Staff Software Engineer, Application Delivery
$162K–$210K
New York, NY · Staff · Full-time · Posted Feb 23, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in software delivery strategy or similar platform work; 5+ years with containers, Kubernetes, package management, IaC, GitOps workflows, and cloud services.
About the job
Leads the shared software delivery platform and deployment workflows, setting technical direction for safe, observable, AI-assisted releases across the organization.
What you'll do
- Set the technical direction and roadmap for reusable delivery platforms, pipelines, and deployment workflows.
- Design safeguards and paved paths for AI-generated and agent-driven changes to move safely through CI/CD.
- Improve release quality, reliability, and delivery speed; mentor engineers and lead cross-team technical work.
What they ask for
- 7+ years building technical strategy and driving software delivery or similar platform work with broad organizational impact.
- Experience building and scaling multi-tenant internal platforms with self-service paved paths, adoption, backward compatibility, and tenant isolation.
- Proficiency maintaining production services in one or more general-purpose programming languages.
- 5+ years with containers, Kubernetes, package management, IaC, GitOps deployment workflows, and cloud services; experience with delivery metrics, observability, GenAI-assisted developer tools, cross-team leadership, and mentoring.
Nice to have
- Exposure to artifact/package management, including security, retention, cost, and ease of use.
Pay
$162,000 — $210,000 USD annual base pay
Tools
GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Go, Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Java, Kubernetes, Terraform
AI focus
Sets technical direction for safely integrating AI-generated and agent-driven changes into CI/CD, using policy, guardrails, and observable delivery workflows; uses GenAI-assisted developer tooling.
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