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Principal Software Engineer, Data Platform

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1 day ago
Dublin, IrelandStaff+
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Responsibilities

  • Work hands-on with Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, and streaming infrastructure to diagnose performance issues and build scalable systems.
  • Contribute to technical strategy and architectural decisions for critical data platform initiatives.
  • Design and evolve developer-facing platform APIs and abstractions that enable engineering self-service.
  • Align stakeholders across engineering, product, and leadership on architectural changes.
  • Mentor engineers and improve engineering practices across the organization.
  • Use AI tooling to increase individual and team productivity.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with meaningful experience in data platforms or distributed systems.
  • Deep expertise in Apache Spark and Apache Iceberg.
  • Strong experience with streaming infrastructure such as Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, or similar technologies.
  • Experience with cloud-native data platforms on AWS.
  • Experience designing internal platforms and developer-facing abstractions.
  • Ability to drive technical alignment across multi-team environments and communicate architectural direction effectively.
  • Databricks experience is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role requiring in-office collaboration two days per week in the Dublin office.
  • Toast provides benefits and total rewards programs intended to support competitive compensation, healthy lifestyles, and employees’ changing needs.
  • Accessible and inclusive hiring process with reasonable accommodations available.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Toast

1,001-5,000 employees

Toast is the operating system behind the hardest-working people out there — the restaurateurs and retailers running busy businesses. We build tools to match their effort, rigorously designed to perform under pressure, with 1,000 little features for every make-or-break moment. Our POS platform brings hardware, software, AI, and financial technology together to help operators get busy, stay busy, and run busy. We’re Toasters, proud to innovate alongside our customers. Want to join us? https://careers.toasttab.com/

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