Staff Software Engineer - Application Infrastructure

Job description

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. We are looking for an experienced software engineer to play a critical role in further scaling and developing Toast’s cloud platform and infrastructure. Toast’s platform processes billions of requests per day from hundreds of internal services and hundreds of thousands of mobile devices; these numbers grow exponentially year over year as we add new restaurants and capabilities to the platform. Our team is responsible for developing secure, observable, highly available, large-scale shared services and infrastructure. A day in the life (Responsibilities) What you'll need to thrive (Requirements) - 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 pr...