Our work is driven by a deep investigative spirit and enhanced by innovation to bring audiences closer to the stories that matter most.

It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning News and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales.

Why This Role MattersWe are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join the Subscriptions team at The Washington Post. This role spans the full application stack with a strong emphasis on the cloud infrastructure, delivery systems, and operational practices that keep our subscription products reliable and scalable. As a senior engineer, you will take ownership of complex technical work, contribute to architectural decisions, and help improve how the team builds, deploys, and operates software.

The idóneo candidate brings deep expertise in AWS, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and production operations, along with strong application development experience in Java - our primary backend language - and Node.js, and familiarity with React. What Motivates YouStrong sense of ownership and accountability for both the software you build and the systems that run it. Passionate about reliable, scalable systems and making software delivery faster, safer, and more repeatable.

Comfortable moving across application code, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, developer tooling, and production operations. How You'll Support the MissionDesign, build, test, deploy, and operate applications and services supporting our subscription products.

Own technical solutions throughout their lifecycle, from design and implementation through deployment, observability, production support,



and continuous improvement.

Design and maintain scalable, reliable AWS infrastructure using services such as ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, and related technologies. Build and evolve Infrastructure as Code, with experience using AWS CDK strongly valued.

Design, maintain, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and developer workflows.

Configure, operate, troubleshoot, and improve self-hosted engineering platforms such as Jenkins, Airflow, and similar systems. Develop backend services and APIs primarily using Java, with Node.js used across supporting services, automation, and tooling.

Contribute to frontend applications built with React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript when needed.

Establish strong observability and diagnose complex issues spanning applications, infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and third-party integrations.

Use AI extensively throughout the engineering lifecycle and identify opportunities to apply it to development, infrastructure, troubleshooting, automation, incident investigation, and operational workflows.

The Skills and Experience You BringMinimum QualificationsBA/BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.5+ years of hands-on AWS experience, including designing, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting production workloads.4+ years of experience with CI/CD, deployment automation,



and Infrastructure as Code in production environments.3+ years of backend development experience with Java, including building and operating production services and APIs. Java is the team's primary backend language.2+ years of professional experience with Node.js, including services, automation, developer tooling, or infrastructure tooling.

Experience administering and operating self-hosted engineering platforms such as Jenkins, Airflow, or similar technologies in production environments.

Strong understanding of cloud architecture, networking, IAM, security, scalability, reliability, and operational best practices.

Experience building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, or comparable technologies. Experience with containerized workloads and services such as Docker and ECS.Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to contribute to application code when needed.

Candidates should be able to discuss concrete examples of applying AI to infrastructure, automation, software development, troubleshooting, incident investigation, documentation, or other engineering workflows.

Preferred

Qualifications7+ years of hands-on AWS, DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure experience, including ownership of highly available, scalable production environments.5+ years of experience designing and operating CI/CD, deployment automation, and Infrastructure as Code across multiple applications or teams.5+ years of backend development experience with Java and 3+ years with Node.js.2+ years of experience with React or a comparable modern frontend framework, with the ability to contribute to and support modern JavaScript/TypeScript applications

📌 Entry Level Software Developer (Ciudad de México)
🏢 The Washington Post
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