As a Senior Software Engineer on Dev. Ex Platforms, you’ll build Gen. AI-augmented developer experiences and platform capabilities used across all of The New York Times. Your work will help teams ship faster and more safely, pay down technical debt through structured migrations and platform modernization, and turn effective internal practices into reusable tools and agents. What You’ll Do Design and build Gen. AI-powered developer tooling: prompts, IDE integrations, Cursor/ Claude rules, and telemetry to understand how they’re used. Build and run the Gen. AI developer platform: Tools, services, and integrations leveraging Lite. LLM to power both local and background/long-running agents, providing auth, configuration, and LLM routing. Own guardrails and observability for agentic workflows: integrate with Datadog, DX, and Fin. Out, define sensible standards, and make sure agents interact with Jira, GitHub, and internal platforms in a safe, auditable way. Work closely with engineers and managers across Product Engineering to understand how they build software today and to design solutions that actually fit the way they work. Support our mission and values, including journalistic independence, and keep ethics and safety central to how we use AI in developer workflows. This role includes limited on-call responsibilities; the schedule will be set when you join. 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. You will report to the Engineering Manager of the Dev. Ex Platforms team Basic Qualifications: 5 years of professional software engineering experience 2 years of experience improving developer experience through workflows, documentation, and capabilities of the internal platform. Experience designing and building cloud native applications using Golang Hands-on experience building software using Gen. AI tools, like GitHub's Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code. Preferred Qualifications: 3 years of hands on experience managing and deploying resources in AWS. 2 years of experience managing workloads deployed on Kubernetes. Experience in prompt engineering or building AI-powered tools. This role requires limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables. #LI-Hybrid REQ-020128 The annual base pay range for this role is between:$140,000 - $160,000 USD -