Senior Cloud Network Engineer

Toast; United States; Remote; USD 134,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the restaurant platform space is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer who will automate and implement security infrastructure for AWS regions. The role emphasizes collaboration, hands-on technical skills in cloud services, and a commitment to building scalable systems. This position offers an opportunity to thrive in a hybrid work environment and be part of a diverse team committed to supporting the restaurant community.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Flexible benefits programs

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating large scale automated cloud services.
• Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, Cloudformation).
• Ability to influence technical decision-making within an organization.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud landing zones and security infrastructure.
• Collaborate with product and other platform engineering teams.
• Focus on software defined networks and compliance control.

Skills

Automation

Cloud Infrastructure

Network Security

Container Orchestration

Microservice Architecture

Tools

Terraform

Cloudformation

Kubernetes

Go

Job description

Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.

The Infrastructure Engineering team’s mission is to provide the cloud native infrastructure, automation and tools that enable teams across Toast to deliver products in a safe, secure and agile manner, with minimal operational dependencies.

As a Staff Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for providing the automation and implementation for landing zones and related network and security infrastructure for new AWS regions. You are passionate about the cloud, Software Defined Networks, highly available, scalable and secure systems infrastructure.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

• Reports to the Manager of Cloud and Network Infrastructure Engineering focusing on software defined networks, cloud landing zones, VPC buildouts, cloud security, application and network firewalls, as well as ingress and egress control for PCI compliant networks.
• Focus on design and implementation of software defined networks, cloud landing zones and VPCs, cloud security, application and network firewalls, as well as ingress and egress control for security and compliance
• Collaborates with product with an internal customer self service mindset
• Collaborates closely with other platform engineering teams

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• Experience building and operating large scale automated cloud services in multiple AZs and regions in AWS or other public clouds
• Experience with cloud native applications and microservice architecture
• Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, Cloudformation) and platform control planes (Kubernetes API and Operators)
• Hands-on experience building internal and edge network infrastructure in cloud environments, at Layer 3, 4 and 7, DNS, BGP, TGW, VPC Peering, ALB, VPN etc…
• Hands-on experience building and managing systems with Container Orchestration platforms like ECS or Kubernetes, as well as service mesh (Istio, Envoy, etc…)
• Hands-on experience with edge/CDN networking products (Cloudflare, Cloudfront, Fastly, etc…)
• A proven ability to influence technical decision-making and execution within an organization.
• Bonus - software and tool development with Go

Our Spread* of Total Rewards
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits athttps://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

*Bread puns encouraged but not required

#LI-Remote

The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions, if eligible), benefits, and equity (if eligible).

Pay Range

$134,000—$215,000 USD

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive.The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together

We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.

Apply today!

Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact [e-mail].

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