Staff Software Engineer - Traffic Engineering
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ToastRestaurant Technology
Remote, USAFull-TimeStaff
Salary151,000 - 309,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- JavaKotlinTerraformScala
Requirements
- Experience shipping and operating mission-critical production services
- Led complex projects that span multiple teams and have presented technical plans to both engineering and non-engineering audiences
- Have a growth mindset with an emphasis on improving yourself, the engineers around you, and your functional area
- Deep, hands-on experience in Kotlin or another JVM language (Java, Scala)
- Built or operated a service mesh in production — Envoy, Istio, Linkerd, Consul Connect, or similar
- Managed cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
- Hands-on experience with DNS and edge routing through a CDN such as Cloudflare, Cloudfront, Akamai, or Fastly
- Working knowledge of TLS — termination, mTLS, and certificate lifecycle management at scale
- Comfortable working across the networking stack and are comfortable digging into different network layers
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and operate the traffic infrastructure that carries every request across Toast — from the public edge through cloud networking down to service-to-service traffic
- Lead complex, multi-team projects that improve how Toast services discover, route to, secure, and observe one another
- Own the reliability of critical traffic infrastructure end-to-end, from design through on-call response, post-incident learning, and long-term hardening
- Design solutions that anticipate future scale and product needs (multi-region, new protocols, evolving service-mesh patterns) while making explicit tradeoffs
- Partner with the team on cloud networking, edge routing (Cloudflare), DNS, and IaC-driven automation
- Act as a force multiplier: mentor engineers, improve developer ergonomics for service owners, and make the platform easier and safer to operate
- Lead through influence across multiple teams and reporting lines, setting technical direction and driving adoption of platform standards without direct authority
- Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow
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