About the Role

This team manages the New York Times' GraphQL platform. Our mission is to provide a robust 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 seeking a GraphQL and Developer Experience enthusiast to join our team and contribute to our mission-critical distributed platform.

Responsibilities: 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 strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager Basic Qualifications: 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 Qualifications: 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.

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