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Principal Software Engineer, Configuration Platform

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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $368k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable systems critical to customer operations.
  • Define and drive long-term technical architecture and strategy across the organization.
  • Design solutions that anticipate future needs and clearly communicate technical direction.
  • Sponsor and mentor Staff and Senior Staff engineers.
  • Improve engineering productivity as a force multiplier.
  • Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement system optimizations.
  • Use AI development tools to improve workflow, velocity, and engineering approaches.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience delivering and operating mission-critical production services at scale.
  • Experience owning high-throughput systems and navigating distributed architecture.
  • Ability to define sophisticated project roadmaps and drive technical direction toward execution.
  • Ability to make trusted technical decisions balancing immediate outcomes with long-term strategy.
  • Humility, empathy, respect for peers, and a growth-oriented approach to engineering.
  • Ability to mentor senior engineering talent and act as a technical authority.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with region-specific in-office expectations.
  • Competitive benefits and total rewards, including equity and benefits.
  • Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the hiring process.

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About Toast

5,001-10,000 employees

Toast builds an all-in-one, cloud-based POS and restaurant management platform combining software, Android-based terminals, and integrated payments for restaurants. Revenue comes from SaaS subscriptions, hardware sales, and payment processing, with add-ons such as online ordering, delivery integrations, and payroll. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, it is a public company on the NYSE serving single-location eateries to multi-unit groups across the U.S. and expanding internationally.

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