Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

Join Toast, a rapidly growing company in the restaurant technology space. As a Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure), you will design, build, and operate the foundational distributed systems that power the Toast platform. Your work will directly impact product delivery across the Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC). You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and make a significant impact on the company's growth and success.

- Cloud & Infrastructure as Code: Hands-on experience building and managing scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
- Solid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including monitoring, alerting, health checks, and performance troubleshooting in high-traffic environments
- Databases: Deep experience operating and tuning enterprise databases at scale. This should include at least one variety of relational database (such as Postgres, Oracle, or MySQL) and at least one type of nonrelational database (such as MongoDB, DynamoDB, Opensearch)
- Containerization: Experience working with containerized environments and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)
- Software Development: Fluency in Python, Go, or a similar language for infrastructure automation, tooling, or backend development
- Cloud Cost Optimization
- AI/ML Infrastructure support
- Observability & Telemetry with Datadog, Prometheus