Senior Software Engineer, Release Engineering

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 mission of the Release Engineering team is “to empower Toasters to build and deploy software with speed, confidence, and joy.”  We create digital assembly lines that transform code into polished products. We build scalable, secure, and automated release pipelines that turbocharge our software delivery and ensure compliance and reliability from first commit to production deployment.  We are looking for a software engineer to join in our mission!

• →Be part of a team working collaboratively to optimize build and deployment automation tools for developers
• →Create and implement CI/CD solutions that ensure release quality and security
• →Lead complex projects with multiple contributors and stakeholders
• →Participate in team on-call rotation to respond to production alerts for the team’s systems
• →Mentor and coach other team members
• →Promote technical excellence 

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Proficiency in Go, Java/Kotlin or other modern language(s) with a strong understanding of testing, quality and best practices
• Ability to dive into a breadth of problems in various programming languages
• Passion for improving the software delivery process and making developers happy
• Hunger for leveraging AI tools efficiently for our team and our customers
• Agile mindset focused on delivering usable software

• Experience with managing AWS/Cloud infrastructure
• Experience building CI/CD solutions

• A core of Java/Kotlin and Golang based backend services

• PostgresQL and DynamoDB as core persistence
• Backstage developer portal
• Deep AWS integrations and componentry
• Claude Code and similar AI development tools as part of daily engineering
• Many more technologies that help us build a world-class platform

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.

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other.

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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