Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer — High-Scale Systems

Toast; Dublin (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Toast is seeking an experienced software engineer to scale and develop our cloud platform and infrastructure. You will work on high-traffic services used by millions of restaurants, focusing on reliability, performance, and scalability in a cloud-native stack.

Join a collaborative, hybrid team that values mentoring, best-practice engineering, and cross-functional alignment with product and data teams. The role emphasizes secure, observable services powered by AWS and modern languages.

Qualifications

• 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, and resilient code that stands the test of time.

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

Cloud

Distributed systems

Messaging

APIs

Java/Kotlin

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Terraform

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Apache Pulsar

Job description

Toast is seeking an experienced software engineer to scale and develop our cloud platform and infrastructure. You will work on high-traffic services used by millions of restaurants, focusing on reliability, performance, and scalability in a cloud-native stack.

Join a collaborative, hybrid team that values mentoring, best-practice engineering, and cross-functional alignment with product and data teams. The role emphasizes secure, observable services powered by AWS and modern languages.