About NewsBreak
Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy. With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.
Recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale.
Together, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.
If you’re inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about
What you’ll do
- Lead the architecture upgrade of our backend services — untangle legacy boundaries, define clean interfaces, build in first-class observability — and land it incrementally on live, high-QPS systems.
- Build the infrastructure that lets AI agents act safely in production.
- Automate high-toil engineering workflows into reliable, self-serve systems.
- Deliver backend capabilities for product initiatives (experiments, growth systems, serving changes) when the business needs them.
- Own reliability for what you build: observability, safe rollback, and lessons that feed the team’s knowledge base.
- 5+ years backend; strong Java; Kubernetes and CI/CD.
- You’ve led backend architecture design — service boundaries, data flows, high-QPS systems — ideally in large-scale recommendation, search, or ads systems, and lived with the consequences.
- You’ve refactored live production systems without breaking them: incremental migration, shadow verification, safe rollout are second nature.
- Rigorous about safety: you design for rollback and blast-radius control by default.
- Bonus: LLM-agent / AIOps exposure.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years backend engineering experience
- Strong Java skills
- Kubernetes experience
- CI/CD experience
- Proven leadership in backend architecture design for high-QPS systems and service boundaries
- Experience refactoring live production systems with incremental migration, shadow verification, and safe rollout
- Designing for safety, rollback, and blast-radius control by default
- LLM-agent or AIOps exposure
What We Do
NewsBreak is the leading platform for local news and information, with more than 40 million users across America. By using new technology, NewsBreak provides community-focused news and information from over 10,000 sources in a timely and accessible way. NewsBreak is bridging the gap between new technology and traditional local media, offering an innovative digital solution that allows users to get the information they need to live safer, more vibrant, and connected lives. Based in Mountain View, California, NewsBreak connects users with local information, national publishers, and targeted advertising from local businesses, with increased traffic and revenue that helps strengthen local communities. We are always looking for great talents. Contact us via [email protected] Our website: https://www.newsbreak.com/about Creator Program: https://www.newsbreak.com/creators Publishing Platform: https://mp.newsbreakapp.com Android App Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.particlenews.newsbreak&hl=en iOS App Download: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-break-personal-local/id1132762804?mt=8
