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Principal Cloud Engineer

ToastUnited StatesRemote

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 Principal Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for platform architecture and providing the automation and implementation for landing zones as well as 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.
  • 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 PCI compliant networks.
  • Is a technical leader and cloud architect (platform engineering)
  • 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 designing, building and operating large scale automated cloud services in multiple zones and regions in AWS or other public clouds
  • Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, Cloudformation), 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…)
  • Deep experience with cloud native systems infrastructure, applications and micro service architecture
  • The ability to influence and lead teams executing and making technical decisions within a larger organization
  • Collaborate with the Chief Architect and Software Systems Architects
  • A strong sense of empathy for internal engineering teams and teammates
  • Bonus - software and tool development with Go
  • 15+ years of experience developing and operating distributed systems
  • 10+ years of experience implementing and architecting in AWS Cloud

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 at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.*Bread puns encouraged but not required#LI-RemoteThe starting pay rate for this role is below. Please note, there is not a range for this role, the number listed below is the rate.Pay Rate$182,000—$291,000 USD

We are Toasters


Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success.At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.

Bready* to make a change? 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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.

Life at Toast

Toast is an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform. As a cloud-based system built specifically for restaurants, Toast offers advanced functionality including tableside ordering, quick menu modifications, real-time enterprise reporting, online ordering, and labor management on an easy-to-use interface. Want to be a Toaster Join us! We move fast, work hard, have fun, and care deeply about our customers success. http://pos.toasttab.com/careers
Thrive Here & What We Value1. Commitment to Creating an Accessible and Inclusive Hiring Process2. Providing Reasonable Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities3. Enhancing Equitable Opportunities for All4. Baking Inclusive Principles into Our Company and Design5. Providing Competitive Compensation and Benefits Programs6. Embracing Diversity and Inclusion7. Focusing on Employee Development and Professional Growth8. Belief in Authenticity, Inclusivity, High Standards of Respect and Trust9. Emphasis on Baking Inclusive Principles into Company Culture1e Equitable Opportunities for All Employees12 Risk Assessment and Mitigation Plan Development13 Regulatory Change Monitoring and Awareness14 Subject Matter Expertise on International Laws and Regulations15 Uncapped Commissions for Eligible Roles16 Focusing on Operational Excellence17 Emphasis on Analytical Prowess
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