# Senior Software Engineer, Release Engineering

**Company**: Toast
**Location**: Remote, US
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $159,000-$254,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/toast/jobs/8191597?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ac9a2493-d3c

## Description

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.

## Responsibilities

- 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

## Requirements

- 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

## Special Sauce*

- Experience with managing AWS/Cloud infrastructure

- Experience building CI/CD solutions

## Our Tech Stack

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

- GitHub Actions workflow platform and custom actions written in TypeScript

- 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

## Benefits

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.

## Salary Range

The base salary range for this role is: Zone A: $159,000-$254,000 USD Zone B: $138,000-$221,000 USD Zone C: $125,000-$200,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Java
- Kotlin
- CI/CD
- AWS/Cloud infrastructure
- Agile

### Nice to have
- TypeScript
- PostgresQL
- DynamoDB
- Backstage developer portal
- Claude Code

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