Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL Platform

New York, NYfull timeOn Site

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$162k–$195k

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The New York Times The Senior Software Engineer on the GraphQL Platform team at The New York Times develops and scales the GraphQL API platform, ensuring reliability and performance. This role leads schema design governance and mentors team members.

Responsibilities

The Samizdat team manages the New York Times' GraphQL platform. Our mission is to provide a API layer powering our products and internal systems. We are in an exciting period of modernization, driving scale and reliability as our upstream data complexity grows. We are looking for a GraphQL and Developer Experience enthusiast to join our team and contribute to our mission-critical distributed platform.
Develop new platform offerings while ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our GraphQL platform as it continues to grow.
Lead by example in establishing and enforcing GraphQL schema design and governance best practices, participating in platform-wide schema working groups, and reviewing/mentoring cross-team contributions.
Contribute to the platform's automation, developer tooling, and onboarding/kick-off guides for service adopters and subgraph contributors.
Support on-call, incident response, and troubleshooting efforts for platform-level escalations.
Mentor team members, promoting technical excellence and a culture of respect and constructive feedback.
Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager.

Qualification

You value learning and improvement

Required

You have 5+ years of software development experience with a focus on API development.
You have expertise developing and scaling GraphQL APIs in production, with practical knowledge of federation principles (Apollo or similar).
Your background includes at least one statically typed backend language (we use Go).
You are familiar with automation for code quality, release management, and developer workflow improvements.
You have experience delivering projects from design to implementation, testing and documentation.
You value learning and improvement, sharing knowledge, and welcoming constructive feedback.

Preferred

Background working with Apollo GraphQL (Router, Federation, schema design, plugins/extensions).
Knowledge of performance optimization for APIs under high traffic, CDN integration, caching, and multi-region operations.
Experience troubleshooting and improving observability for a platform distributed across multiple systems.
Experience deploying and maintaining applications on Kubernetes.
This is a hybrid role based in our NYC headquarters. You could typically expect to come in the office two days per week.

Benefits

Dental
Vision
401(k)
Equity/RSU
Annual Bonus
Tuition
Parental Leave

Company

The New York Times

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