Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.

The Infrastructure Engineering team’s mission is to provide cloud native infrastructure, automation and tools that enable teams across Toast to deliver products in a safe, secure and agile manner, with minimal operational dependencies.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for platform architecture and providing the automation and implementation for landing zones as well as network and security infrastructure for new AWS regions.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

Work within a Scrum team to create, document and support various infrastructure as code modules.
Create, document and support various tools and services used in order to support continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment of highly available infrastructure in various environments.
Use your familiarity with DevOps methodologies and practices to foster a culture of quality while facilitating developer velocity.
Create tools to help our developers move their infrastructure from a monolithic repo to individual service repos for use with our IDP.
You believe internal tools deserve unit tests.
Lead by example with code standards and design; help implement these across the scrum team’s products.
Mentor and support developers within the organisation on using and extending of IaC tooling and support systems using DevOps methodologies.

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

Minimum 6+ years of experience in a DevOps/Infrastructure/Platform engineering role
Hands on experience with object orientated programming is a MUST for this role (Java or Kotlin ideally)
You must have hands on experience with writing Terraform Providers
Expertise with at least one public cloud computing offering such as AWS, GCP or Azure infrastructure SDKs
Expertise with Infrastructure-as-Code framework internals & SDKs (Terraform providers, Ansible modules & plugins, etc)
Solid experience in Go, Python, Java or Kotlin with a strong understanding of testing, quality and best practices.
Experience maintaining large-scale infrastructure, including both production and nonproduction workloads.
Experience with the continuous integration, deployment, and delivery of Cloud Infrastructure at scale for technology teams of hundreds of developers.
A desire to build a diverse team that wins together and prioritises customer success.
Experience leading the build and scale of critical platform features.

What will help you stand out (Nonessential Skills/Nice to Haves)

Exposure/experience using AI tools such as Claude

AI at Toast

At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

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How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process

Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring

Our Approach to Hybrid Working

We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together

We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.

Apply today!

Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.

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Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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