Principal Software Engineer, Configuration Platform

Toast is a technology company that helps restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. The Principal Software Engineer for the Configuration Platform will design and maintain critical systems that support real-time operations for customers, while also mentoring engineering talent and driving technical strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems that are critical to our customers’ success
• Define and drive long-term technical architecture and strategy across the entire organization, aligning executive business goals with platform capabilities
• Design solutions that anticipate and accommodate future needs while considering tradeoffs
• Effectively communicate technical direction
• Sponsor and mentor senior engineering talent (Staff and Senior Staff engineers) to grow the next generation of technical leaders across Toast
• Act as a force multiplier in improving engineering productivity
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
• Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team

Requirements:

• Approach your work with humility, empathy, and deep respect for your peers
• Articulate sophisticated project roadmaps and empower engineering cohorts to drive them toward fruition
• Proven track record of delivering and operating mission-critical production services at scale
• Maintain end-to-end ownership over high-throughput systems while navigating the complexities of distributed architecture
• Embody a growth-oriented mindset focused on continuous elevation of your craft and domain
• Establish yourself as a trusted technical authority capable of making decisions that secure both immediate wins and long-term strategic goals