Condé Nast

Principal Engineer

1 World Trade Center, New York, NY · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$190k-$215kDetected 7 days ago

JavaScriptTypeScriptReactNode.jsGitAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesGraphQLRESTAgentic AIAccessibilityLeadership

About the role

Drive the implementation of an island architecture which teams build against to the guardrails that keep the platform coherent as it scales across brands.
Own the architecture of the edge and delivery layer: CDN strategy, caching, and the cloud infrastructure that delivers our brands to a global audience.
Raise the technical floor across the organization through design review, pairing, documentation and principled decision-making.
Teams own their apps, including on-call.

Experience with CDN configuration on a consumer facing public web system.
Experience profiling and debugging real performance: frame drops, slow renders, memory pressure, and the tooling used to find them.
Hands-on experience with Real User Monitoring and Core Web Vitals.
The ability to operate amid ambiguity: to take an initial business goal and produce a concrete, defensible technical plan.

Background in media, publishing or other content-delivery platforms operating at high traffic and high editorial expectation.
Familiarity with accessibility as a substantive engineering discipline rather than a compliance exercise.
Languages & Frameworks: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Astro, Node.js, GraphQL, REST
Delivery & Infra: CDN/Edge, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
Source Control: Git, GitHub
Infrastructure as code everywhere.
Pairing and other techniques to facilitate knowledge sharing and upskilling.
AI-native by default and customer-obsessed in intent, with a bias toward placing real work in front of readers and allowing data to guide the next decision.

define the Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Core Web Vitals instrumentation, make sure it captures what actually matters in the field, and turn it into a continuous feedback loop on front-end and delivery health.

Condé Nast is a global media company producing the highest quality content with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers in 32 territories through print, digital, video and social platforms.
The company's portfolio includes many of the world's most respected and influential media including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired, among others.
New York, NY
Condé Nast is a global media company producing the world's most iconic lifestyle, journalism, and fashion brands.
We aim to inspire, inform and entertain our audiences through our portfolio of well known brands such as Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, GQ and many other leading brands.
organizing for speed, ownership and customer focus with smaller teams, fewer hand-offs, and AI native in how we work.
Engineering is responsible for scaling, building and deploying the experiences that serve our audiences globally, and the consumer-facing surface of that is evolving to meet our audience's evolving needs.

This listing is sourced directly from Condé Nast's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.