- New York, New York, United States
- Hybrid
- Full-time · Staff
- $162K–$195K per year
- 5+ years
The Samizdat team manages the New York Times' GraphQL platform, providing an API layer powering products and internal systems during a period of modernization and scale.
Compensation
The annual base pay range for this role is between: $162,000—$195,000 USD
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.
Requirements
- Nice to have: Apollo GraphQL
- Nice to have: Router
- Nice to have: schema design
- Nice to have: plugins/extensions
- Nice to have: performance optimization for APIs