Senior Software Engineer - Media API Platform , NY Posted

Senior Software Engineer - Media API Platform

Location

New York

Business Area

Engineering and CTO

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Description & Requirements

Bloomberg Media empowers global business leaders with breaking news, expert opinion and proprietary data distributed with global reach. With over 30 million unique visitors each month, our flagship website  is the go-to destination for those looking to stay ahead of the curve. As one of the top 10 most visited financial and news sites on the web, we take pride in delivering top-quality content that our audience can trust.

The Media API Platform team builds and runs the API layer at the heart of Bloomberg Media's digital products. We empower Media engineers to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure APIs quickly. Our tools and standards make it easy to build, discover, and consume APIs across the org.

Our internal GraphQL gateway serves backend services and is composed of more than a dozen subgraphs, spanning user and media domains in one schema. And it's growing, soon aggregating dozens of data sources from product and content teams across the organization. Our public GraphQL gateway serves client-facing apps secured by pre-approved queries. We also operate the shared building blocks all our APIs rely on: centralized authentication and authorization, rate limiting, token management and job management.

We focus on reliability by building automated regression suites that run nightly and post-deployment, daily test reports, and observability tooling—including AI-assisted skills that track down latency regressions. The result is a team with wide impact: when engineers at Bloomberg Media need to build, find, or use an API quickly and safely, they use what we build. We are also excited about leveraging AI tooling to build, monitor, and release software, including agentic workflows for live features.

• High-Impact Scale:
  Own and scale the core API layer at Bloomberg Media, serving millions of users worldwide and handling up to 300k requests per minute.

• Modern Tech Stack & Cutting-Edge Tools:
  Work with Type Script/Node, Java/Kotlin, and AWS while pioneering AI-assisted tooling, agentic workflows, and a rapidly expanding GraphQL ecosystem using various open-source and in-house tools.

• Ground-Floor Agentic Development:
  Get in on the ground floor of live agentic development workflows, pioneering AI-assisted tooling and agent-driven systems for cross-organization software development and feature delivery.

• Graph Caching & High-Performance Scaling:
  Tackle complex federated GraphQL caching challenges by building fine-grained entity caching systems and optimizing response times to deliver high-throughput, low-latency performance for critical, high-traffic destinations across Bloomberg Media.

• Ownership of Shared Building Blocks:
  Build and maintain critical shared infrastructure relied upon by engineers across the company, including API gateways, centralized authentication, rate limiting, and token management.

• Provide expert GraphQL guidance to client developer teams on best practices.

• Grow our graph in a secure way for the future of possible agentic clients.

• Develop and promote internal and open-source GraphQL tooling for seamless deployments and adoption of a well-governed federated graph.

• Implement agentic workflows to ensure graph quality and speed of development.

• Drive key initiatives like org-wide identity and access management (IAM) adoption, advanced observability, and upgraded job scheduling services for critical offline workflows.

• Analyze open-source and vendor products to advise on buy vs. build decisions.

• Partner closely with product and content teams across the organization, leading technical decisions, designing robust APIs, and mentoring…