Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Network Engineering at Toast

Toast, Inc.

Remote Actively hiring Posted today Verified listing

Boston, MA Posted today $193,000–$309,000 / year

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TL;DR

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Traffic Engineering team at Toast, you will design and build the traffic infrastructure that carries requests across Toast's network, from public edge to cloud networking and service-to-service routing. You will lead multi-team projects to improve service discovery, route optimization, security, and observability while ensuring reliability through end-to-end ownership. Utilizing Kotlin or another JVM language, along with tools like Envoy/Istio for service mesh, Terraform for IaC, and Cloudflare for edge routing, you will enhance the platform's scalability and efficiency. This role also involves mentoring engineers, improving developer ergonomics, and integrating AI tools to streamline development workflows.

Skills

Kotlin Java Scala Terraform Cloudflare DNS TLS Envoy Istio Service Mesh CI/CD AWS Cloud Networking Multi-Region Deployments Infrastructure as Code PostgreSQL Docker GitOps

What you'll do

Design, build, and operate traffic infrastructure from public edge to service-to-service routing.
Lead multi-team projects improving how services discover, route, secure, and observe each other.
Ensure reliability of critical traffic infrastructure through design, on-call response, and long-term hardening.
Anticipate future scale needs in cloud networking, DNS, and service mesh while making explicit tradeoffs.
Mentor engineers and improve developer ergonomics to make the platform easier and safer to operate.

What we're looking for

Extensive experience shipping and operating mission-critical production services.
Led complex, multi-team projects with technical presentations to various audiences.
Deep hands-on expertise in Kotlin or another JVM language like Java or Scala.
Experience building and operating a service mesh in production environments.
Managed cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.

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Salary context

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How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $251k

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This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $165,000–$224,062 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $251k versus about $195k for comparable roles.

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About Toast, Inc.

Toast is a cloud-based restaurant management platform providing point-of-sale, payment processing, and operations software for the food service industry.

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