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Engineering Manager, Compute and Storage

The New York Times· Software Engineering
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New York, NY$160k - $190kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Engineering Manager to lead the Compute and Storage team within The New York Times Data Platform mission, building and operating shared compute engines, lakehouse storage, and connectivity infrastructure to enable data products across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of engineers, promoting collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
  • Oversee roadmap execution for compute, streaming, orchestration and lakehouse storage platforms.
  • Guide architecture and technical decisions; set standards for shared platform code and engine integrations for security, reliability, and scalability.
  • Define and track service goals for availability, provisioning speed, pipeline success and query performance.
  • Build strong practices for on-call, automation, SLAs and escalation paths.
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to turn their needs into self-service capabilities.
  • Develop and maintain budgets, forecasts and a cost attribution model.
  • Support value of journalistic independence and NYT mission.

Qualifications

  • 1+ years of experience as an engineering manager, and 4+ years in a technical leadership role working with cross-functional partners.
  • 5+ years of software or data infrastructure engineering experience building scalable and distributed systems.
  • Experience running production cloud infrastructure on Kubernetes.
  • Skilled in defining SLOs and SLAs, monitoring and alerting, incident management and operational automation.
  • Strong technical fluency. Comfortable guiding architecture discussions and reviewing code alongside engineers.

Skills

Required:Engineering leadershipCompute and storage platform architectureSLOs/SLAs and incident managementCloud infrastructure on Kubernetes
Nice to have:Budgeting and cost attribution

Benefits

  • medical, dental and vision benefits
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
  • company-matching 401(k) plan
  • employee stock purchase plan
  • paid vacation
  • paid sick days
  • paid parental leave
  • tuition reimbursement
  • professional development programs
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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