Staff Software Engineer, Application Infrastructure

Toast is building a restaurant platform. We are looking for an experienced software engineer to scale and develop Toast's cloud platform and infrastructure, which processes billions of requests per day. The team is responsible for secure, observable, highly available, large-scale shared services. The role involves architecting high-performance services, resolving performance bottlenecks, defining engineering best practices, and collaborating with the product team. We embrace AI-driven software.

Hands-on experience with complex distributed systems in the cloud, expertise in async messaging and event-driven architecture, clean code, proficiency in Java or Kotlin preferred, exceptional communication, mentoring junior team members. Tech stack includes AWS, Kotlin, Go, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Terraform, Apache Pulsar. Experience with large-scale systems, APIs, integration patterns, and a track record of delivering resilient code.