Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Security

Toast builds technology for restaurants and local businesses. The Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Security will expand and lead cloud security capabilities, building and operating security tooling and controls while setting strategy, mentoring engineers, and influencing engineering roadmaps across R&D.

Responsibilities:

• Own and operate our Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), including tuning, coverage, integrations, and turning findings into prioritized, actionable work for engineering teams
• Lead cloud security posture management (CSPM) across our AWS organization and accounts, defining standards and measuring adherence over time
• Drive identity and access management improvements, including least privilege, role and permission design, and reducing standing access
• Secure our container environments, from image and workload security to cluster configuration and runtime protection
• Build guardrails and secure defaults into infrastructure as code and deployment pipelines, so that teams get secure configurations by default rather than through review
• Perform secure architecture reviews and threat modeling for new and existing cloud services and platform capabilities
• Partner with our SOC on cloud detection coverage, logging, and investigation readiness
• Run and improve cloud vulnerability and misconfiguration remediation programs, working with engineering owners to drive risk down
• Participate in security incident response, including on-call coverage, and lead the cloud side of investigations and follow-up work
• Set the multi-year direction for cloud security at Toast, and mentor and uplevel other engineers on the team
• Build trusted relationships with Platform, Infrastructure, and product engineering leaders, and influence their priorities through data and clear risk communication

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in security engineering, infrastructure, or software engineering, with significant time focused on cloud security
• Deep, hands-on experience securing AWS environments at scale, including IAM, Organizations, networking, logging, and core security services
• Experience deploying and operating cloud security tooling, such as CNAPP or CSPM platforms (for example Orca, Wiz, or Upwind)
• Experience with container and Kubernetes security (for example EKS)
• Experience performing threat modeling and security architecture reviews for cloud services and platform capabilities
• Experience responding to security incidents in cloud environments
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (for example Terraform) and in at least one programming language used for automation (for example Python or Go)
• A track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives and influencing engineering teams without direct authority
• History of setting technical direction for a security domain, including a multi-year roadmap and the decisions behind it
• Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining risk and tradeoffs to engineers and leaders
• Experience with GCP, Azure, or other cloud platforms
• Experience with cloud detection engineering or incident response in cloud environments
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to payments and SaaS, such as PCI DSS or SOC 2
• Relevant certifications, such as AWS Certified Security Specialty or CCSP
• Experience mentoring engineers or growing a security function