Senior Data Engineer, Messaging Platforms

Summary

Join The New York Times' Core Platforms team as a Data Engineer and contribute to the growth of customer acquisition, engagement, and reader loyalty. You will build and maintain data pipelines, models, and applications processing billions of messages monthly. This role involves collaboration with engineers, designers, and product managers within a supportive and collaborative environment. Limited on-call hours are required. The position offers a competitive salary range of $140,000 - $155,000 USD annually. The New York Times is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• 5 years of professional experience in Data Engineering
• 5 years of experience with SQL and query optimization
• 3 years of overall experience with cloud infrastructure architecture and configuration, especially with cloud-native data-warehousing solutions like Snowflake or BigQuery
• 3 years of experience writing production-quality Python (or other scripting language)
• 3 years of experience building and orchestrating ETL pipelines (e.g. Apache Airflow, DBT Cloud, BigQuery)
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS)
• Familiarity with Git, and CI/CD systems such as Drone or Jenkins
• Strong experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code platform

Responsibilities

• Create ETL data pipelines to support NYT analysts, marketers, advertisers and editors
• Contribute to a shared data platform by developing new capabilities using tech like BigQuery, dbt, Go, Python, Java, Airflow and Apache Beam
• Assemble large and complex datasets from multiple data sources into formats that can be used by the business
• Automate batch and streaming data transformation pipelines
• Implement data processing capabilities like user behavior models, metric aggregations, audience management and data science features
• Build reliable, scalable, maintainable, and cost-efficient data products
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world

Preferred Qualifications

• Some experience on at least one distributed system such as NoSQL databases, stream processing systems or message brokers
• Experience with the modern data stack (Fivetran / Snowflake / dbt / Looker / Hightouch or equivalents)
• Familiarity with BI tools (e.g. Looker, Mode, Tableau) and experience sharing data insights with reports and dashboards

Benefits

• The annual base pay range for this role is between: $140,000 — $155,000 USD
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