Principal Engineer I – IIoT Platform

Toyota North America; Liberty (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care and wellness plans

401(k) with company match

Relocation assistance

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Toyota North America is seeking an experienced IIoT Platform Engineer for our Liberty, NC site. You will own and operate the internal IIoT platform, build containerized services, run Kubernetes workloads, and drive scalable CI/CD pipelines. You will design IaC, ensure security, and enable teams with reusable templates and observability.

This role reports to the IIoT Platform & Gemba Enablement manager. The position requires 7+ years in software engineering, strong backend experience, and deep

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related engineering/technical field and/or 7+ years of equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software engineering experience in a professional environment
• 5+ years building and operating backend services in Go, Python, or a comparable language
• 5+ years with containerization and orchestration (Docker/Podman, Kubernetes)
• 5+ years designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)
• 5+ years with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or equivalent, including schema design and tuning
• 5+ years designing and operating RESTful APIs and backend services
• Hands-on infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or equivalent) and GitOps delivery
• Production experience with observability tooling — metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
• Linux systems administration, networking fundamentals, and TLS/PKI in practice
• Secrets management and secure software supply chain practices — no credentials in code
• Strong problem-solving using 5 Why analysis (or similar) and the ability to debug

Responsibilities

• Own the internal platform as a product, including published interfaces, versioned releases, clear support models, and adoption metrics.
• Build and operate the container platform, including multi-stage image builds, hardened non-root base images, a signed artifact registry, and promotion through local, QA, staging, and production environments.
• Run production workloads on Kubernetes, including deployments, configuration and secrets management, resource limits, rollout strategies, and safe rollback procedures.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, including test, lint, security scanning, build, signing, and deployment steps, with environment gates and automated rollback on failed health checks.
• Define infrastructure as code so every environment is reproducible from source and manually configured servers are eliminated.
• Create golden paths such as templates, scaffolds, and shared libraries so application teams can move from an empty repository to a running, observable, secure service with minimal friction.
• Build backend services and APIs that support high-volume event streaming at scale, including backpressure, buffering, and store-and-forward capabilities for intermittently connected clients.
• Design and maintain data contracts and schema standards, including versioning and backward compatibility rules.
• Instrument the platform end to end with metrics, structured logs, traces, and alerts, and establish measurable SLOs for throughput, latency, and availability.
• Own secrets and credential management, certificate lifecycle and rotation, image and dependency scanning, and least-privilege access across the platform.
• Build ETL and data integration pipelines connecting internal services, enterprise systems, and cloud data stores.
• Operate the platform through on-call support, incident response, blameless postmortems, and permanent fixes that prevent repeat issues.
• Partner with engineering teams as internal customers to gather requirements, reduce friction, and publish documentation and runbooks.
• Mentor engineers on platform practices and help guide technical decisions across projects.
• Modernize legacy codebases and migrate them onto the supported platform.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend development

Kubernetes

CI/CD

SQL databases

RESTful APIs

Observability

Linux administration

Secrets management

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/technical field

Tools

Docker

Podman

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Job description

Overview

Who we are

Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like at Toyota. As one of the world’s most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We’re looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow. with us.

Toyota does not offer support or sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this role now or in the future. You must have the right to work in the United States and not require Toyota support or sponsorship for immigration-related employment (e.g., H-1B, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, TN, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, ‘job flexibility benefits’ [also known as I-140 or Adjustment of Status portability], etc.) now or in the future. You should not apply for this role if you will require Toyota to assist with immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future.

Who we’re looking for

Toyota’s Manufacturing IT Department is looking for a passionate and highly motivated IIoT Platform Engineer.

The primary responsibility of this role is to develop, configure, and support the Industrial IoT platform that enables real-time data flow, application development, and digital solutions across TBMNC.

Reporting to the IIoT Platform & Gemba Enablement manager, the person in this role will support the Manufacturing IT department’s objective to enable team members to rapidly solve problems by providing a scalable and reliable IIoT platform.

This position will be located at Toyota Motors Battery Plant in Liberty, NC. The selected candidate will be expected to reside within a commutable distance of this location.

What you’ll be doing

• Own the internal platform as a product, including published interfaces, versioned releases, clear support models, and adoption metrics.

• Build and operate the container platform, including multi-stage image builds, hardened non-root base images, a signed artifact registry, and promotion through local, QA, staging, and production environments.

• Run production workloads on Kubernetes, including deployments, configuration and secrets management, resource limits, rollout strategies, and safe rollback procedures.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, including test, lint, security scanning, build, signing, and deployment steps, with environment gates and automated rollback on failed health checks.

• Define infrastructure as code so every environment is reproducible from source and manually configured servers are eliminated.

• Create golden paths such as templates, scaffolds, and shared libraries so application teams can move from an empty repository to a running, observable, secure service with minimal friction.

• Build backend services and APIs that support high-volume event streaming at scale, including backpressure, buffering, and store-and-forward capabilities for intermittently connected clients.

• Design and maintain data contracts and schema standards, including versioning and backward compatibility rules.

• Instrument the platform end to end with metrics, structured logs, traces, and alerts, and establish measurable SLOs for throughput, latency, and availability.

• Own secrets and credential management, certificate lifecycle and rotation, image and dependency scanning, and least-privilege access across the platform.

• Build ETL and data integration pipelines connecting internal services, enterprise systems, and cloud data stores.

• Operate the platform through on-call support, incident response, blameless postmortems, and permanent fixes that prevent repeat issues.

• Partner with engineering teams as internal customers to gather requirements, reduce friction, and publish documentation and runbooks.

• Mentor engineers on platform practices and help guide technical decisions across projects.

• Modernize legacy codebases and migrate them onto the supported platform.

Qualification Section

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in a related engineering/technical field and/or 7 or more years of equivalent experience

• 7+ years of software engineering experience in a professional environment

• 5+ years building and operating backend services in Go, Python, or a comparable language

• 5+ years with containerization and orchestration (Docker/Podman, Kubernetes)

• 5+ years designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)

• 5+ years with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or equivalent, including schema design and tuning

• 5+ years designing and operating RESTful APIs and backend services

• Hands-on infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or equivalent) and GitOps delivery

• Production experience with observability tooling — metrics, logs, traces, and alerting

• Linux systems administration, networking fundamentals, and TLS/PKI in practice

• Secrets management and secure software supply chain practices — no credentials in code

• Strong problem-solving using 5 Why analysis (or similar) and the ability to debug

Added bonus if you have

• Cloud platform experience (AWS preferred) and hybrid edge-to-cloud architectures
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling
• Service mesh, ingress, or API gateway experience
• Time-series or event-streaming data stores at scale
• Performance profiling and capacity planning for high-throughput systems
• TypeScript/React for platform-facing consoles and operational dashboards

What we’ll bring

During your interview process, our team can fill you in on all the details of our industry-leading benefits and career development opportunities. A few highlights
include:

• A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect
• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement
• Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount
• Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program (if applicable)
• Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family
• Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match, as well as an annual retirement contribution from Toyota, regardless of whether you contribute (if applicable)
• Paid holidays and paid time off
• Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools, and more
• Tax-Advantaged Accounts (Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, Dependent Care FSA)
• Relocation Assistance (if applicable).

Belonging at Toyota

Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace all perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star.

Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.

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