Staff Cloud Engineer

Summary

Join Toast's Infrastructure Engineering team as a Staff Cloud Engineer and be responsible for automating and implementing landing zones and related network and security infrastructure for new AWS regions. You will focus on designing and implementing software-defined networks, cloud landing zones, and VPCs, ensuring cloud security and compliance. Collaboration with product and platform engineering teams is crucial. This role requires extensive experience in building and operating large-scale automated cloud services, hands-on experience with IaC, Kubernetes, and edge networking, and a proven ability to influence technical decisions. The compensation package includes a competitive salary, cash compensation, equity, and benefits. Remote work is possible.

Requirements

• Experience building and operating large scale automated cloud services in multiple AZs and regions in AWS or other public clouds
• Experience with cloud native applications and microservice architecture
• Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, Cloudformation) and platform control planes (Kubernetes API and Operators)
• Hands-on experience building internal and edge network infrastructure in cloud environments, at Layer 3, 4 and 7, DNS, BGP, TGW, VPC Peering, ALB, VPN etc…
• Hands-on experience building and managing systems with Container Orchestration platforms like ECS or Kubernetes, as well as service mesh (Istio, Envoy, etc…)
• Hands-on experience with edge/CDN networking products (Cloudflare, Cloudfront, Fastly, etc…)
• A proven ability to influence technical decision-making and execution within an organization

Responsibilities

• Provide the automation and implementation for landing zones and related network and security infrastructure for new AWS regions
• Focus on design and implementation of software defined networks, cloud landing zones and VPCs, cloud security, application and network firewalls, as well as ingress and egress control for security and compliance
• Collaborates with product with an internal customer self service mindset
• Collaborates closely with other platform engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

Software and tool development with Go

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits programs
• Cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible)
• Equity
• Benefits