Staff Software Engineer, Application Infrastructure
Toast · Remote, US
About this role
**Toast — Staff Software Engineer, Application Infrastructure** Toast builds technology that helps restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world—supporting operations, increasing sales, engaging customers, and keeping employees happy. We’re looking for an experienced software engineer to help scale and develop Toast’s cloud platform and infrastructure. Toast’s platform processes billions of requests per day across hundreds of internal services and hundreds of thousands of mobile devices. This role focuses on building secure, observable, highly available, large-scale shared services and infrastructure. **Responsibilities** - Architect, design, and deliver ultra-reliable, high-performance services and infrastructure used by millions - Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across infrastructure, databases, and APIs - Define and enable adherence to engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines - Collaborate closely with Product to influence features, technical direction, and long-term product vision **Requirements** - Hands-on experience building and operating complex, mission-critical, large-scale distributed systems in the Cloud - Expertise in asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, APIs, and integration patterns - Track record of delivering clean, maintainable, resilient code - Proficiency in Java or Kotlin preferred (other modern languages also valued) - Exceptional communication and collaboration skills; ability to align and inspire cross-functional teams - Demonstrated record mentoring junior team members and improving team effectiveness **Tech Stack (high level)** - AWS; Kotlin and Go services and shared libraries - PostgreSQL and DynamoDB - Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management - Sharded PostgreSQL databases; Apache Pulsar for event-driven architecture at scale - Tools/services for scheduling recurring jobs - Integrations with SMS and email providers (millions of messages/day) - AI-driven development practices across design, implementation, testing, and production monitoring **Total Rewards / Benefits** Toast offers competitive compensation and benefits. Learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits **Pay Transparency (US)** - Zone A: **$193,000 — $309,000 USD** - Zone B: **$168,000 — $269,000 USD** - Zone C: **$151,000 — $242,000 USD** **AI in Hiring Process** AI tools may be used to support recruiters/interviewers (e.g., note-taking and summarization). Hiring decisions are made by people. Candidates should complete interviews/assessments without real-time AI tools unless otherwise instructed. More: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring **Hybrid Working** Toast embraces a hybrid work model. In-office expectations vary by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast **Apply Today** Toast is committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process. If you need accommodations, contact: candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com
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