Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – Scale & Reliability

Toast; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Toast seeks an experienced software engineer to scale and advance its cloud platform and infrastructure. The role processes billions of requests daily from hundreds of services and devices, focusing on secure, observable, highly available, large-scale shared services and infrastructure.

You will collaborate with Product teams, mentor junior members, and help define best practices while working with AWS, Kotlin/Go, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Terraform, Pulsar, and related technologies.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and operating 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 (experience in other modern languages also valued).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to align cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated mentoring of junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and deliver ultra-reliable, high-performance services and infrastructure used by millions
• Uncover 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 the Product team to influence features, technical direction, and long-term product vision

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Asynchronous messaging

APIs & integration patterns

Java or Kotlin

Mentoring teammates

Job description

Toast seeks an experienced software engineer to scale and advance its cloud platform and infrastructure. The role processes billions of requests daily from hundreds of services and devices, focusing on secure, observable, highly available, large-scale shared services and infrastructure.

You will collaborate with Product teams, mentor junior members, and help define best practices while working with AWS, Kotlin/Go, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Terraform, Pulsar, and related technologies.