Staff Software Engineer, Toast
Cloud Network Engineering
$151-309k
Salary dependent on location + Equity
Point of sale and management system for restaurants
Be an early applicant
Point of sale and management system for restaurants
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$151-309k
Salary dependent on location + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Toast's mission is to enrich the food experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- Experience shipping and operating mission-critical production services
- Led complex projects that span multiple teams and have presented technical plans to both engineering and non-engineering audiences
- Have a growth mindset with an emphasis on improving yourself, the engineers around you, and your functional area
- Deep, hands-on experience in Kotlin or another JVM language (Java, Scala)
- Built or operated a service mesh in production — Envoy, Istio, Linkerd, Consul Connect, or similar
- Managed cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
- Hands-on experience with DNS and edge routing through a CDN such as Cloudflare, Cloudfront, Akamai, or Fastly
- Working knowledge of TLS — termination, mTLS, and certificate lifecycle management at scale
- Comfortable working across the networking stack and are comfortable digging into different network layers
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer on Traffic Engineering at Toast, you will design, build, and operate the traffic infrastructure that carries every request across Toast — from the public edge, through cloud networking, down to service-to-service routing
- The team owns the systems that move traffic at Toast: edge and CDN, DNS, cloud networking, and the service mesh and control plane that route requests between services
- Toast has invested in a strong foundation of networking and platform infrastructure
- This role is an opportunity to build on that foundation by evolving how services connect, route, and secure traffic at scale — making the platform faster, safer, and easier for service owners to depend on
- AI-assisted development is deeply embedded in engineering at Toast
- The majority of engineers use AI tools daily, and AI agents participate in code review, build triage, and operational workflows
- This is your chance to shape how the team's traffic platform evolves, building systems that empower both humans and agents to operate with speed and confidence
- Design, build, deploy, and operate the traffic infrastructure that carries every request across Toast — from the public edge through cloud networking down to service-to-service traffic
- Lead complex, multi-team projects that improve how Toast services discover, route to, secure, and observe one another
- Own the reliability of critical traffic infrastructure end-to-end, from design through on-call response, post-incident learning, and long-term hardening
- Design solutions that anticipate future scale and product needs (multi-region, new protocols, evolving service-mesh patterns) while making explicit tradeoffs
- Partner with the team on cloud networking, edge routing (Cloudflare), DNS, and IaC-driven automation
- Act as a force multiplier: mentor engineers, improve developer ergonomics for service owners, and make the platform easier and safer to operate
- Lead through influence across multiple teams and reporting lines, setting technical direction and driving adoption of platform standards without direct authority
- Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building — contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team
Our take
Running a restaurant means managing a stressful set of elements, all needing to work together seamlessly to create a good experience for diners. Toast helps to streamline processes, and puts an end to piles of paperwork, by providing a platform whereby tableside ordering, menu modifications, labour management, payroll, and more are all housed in one system that can run from a tablet.
Toast offers restaurant-grade hardware and cloud-based, customisable payment solutions to serve clients from startup through to growth phase, as well as a service for established restaurants. By combining all the digital services a restaurant might need, the platform can act as the one and comprehensive solution for restaurants of any size, avoiding restaurateurs from having to invest in a range of technologies.
Toast has over 70,000 restaurants on its books, from food trucks to national brands, and its mobile ordering and payment solutions have made it a recognized brand for consumers. The company's IPO in 2021 saw it valued at over $30 billion and since then, it has added more features to its product suite including wholesale and catering order tools. Toast then, has proven its place as an indispensable player in the restaurant space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2020
$400m
SERIES F
Apr 2019
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $899m
Company benefits
- Peer and company recognition programs
- Unlimited Vacation
- Sabbatical opportunity after five years
- Professional Development Reimbursement Program
- Commitment to Employee Wellness through resources such as a quarterly Wellness Stipend
- Various peer and company recognition programs
- 401(k) and matching
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
- Mental Health Benefits
- Subsidized backup childcare
Company HQ
Fort Point Channel Landmark District, Boston, MA
Leadership
Steve Fredette
(Co-Founder & President)They studied at MIT before co-founding Klick Mobile in 2009 and spending almost 7 years at Endeca. They left their Management role in June 2012 having co-founded Toast in May.
Aman Narang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied Computer Science at MIT, they worked at Endeca for 5 years. They moved from working as Product Manager to work full-time as President of Toast in 2013, having co-founded it the previous year.
Jonathan Grimm
(Co-Founder & CTO)They also studied Computer Science at MIT before working as an Engineer for Endeca for over 4 years. They worked at Oracle for 5 months prior to co-founding Toast in May 2012.
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