Principal Software Engineer, Configuration Platform

Toast creates technology that helps restaurants and local businesses operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. The Principal Software Engineer will lead the design and evolution of Toast’s critical configuration platform, driving technical architecture, scalability, resiliency, engineering productivity, and the development of technical talent.

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