Who we’re looking for:
Toyota's ITx Cloud and Developer Experience (DevEx) team's main objective is to reduce complexity and improve the development velocity and time to market of our software engineering teams that utilize Cloud computing. As a team, we are a passionate group of software engineers who take on the heavy lifting of non-differentiated, yet essential software engineering functions, thus reducing cognitive load on our developers so that they can focus on building business features. To accomplish this, we build automated self-service solutions, blueprints and golden paths for cloud-native applications and infrastructure, deploy best-in-class tools, engineering standards and best practices, as they pertain to Toyota's software development.
As a Principal Staff Engineer, Blueprints in the Cloud Platforms team, you will leverage your experience developing large-scale, highly complex distributed applications on public cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) to create pre-configured golden path applications and infrastructure scaffolding templates/blueprints for cloud native applications. You will verify that the application blueprints incorporate AWS well-architected framework best practices and include an automated, secure software supply chain to expedite business application deployments to production.
What you’ll be doing:
- Author RFCs (Request for Comments) to propose the implementation or modification of a new cloud blueprint or golden path.
- Prepare technical design documents for a Cloud blueprint that takes into consideration the end-to-end lifecycle, including the inner development loop as well as an outer development loop. Ensure compliance with best practices outlined in the AWS Well Architected framework.
- Write high quality application and infrastructure scaffolding code for the above designs that adheres to our standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a large-scale web application environment.
- Create application and golden path migration checklists and guides.
- Provide forward-looking roadmaps, develop a strategy for the Blueprints track to meet the needs of the Toyota developer community, and provide tactical guidance as we continue to expand and establish the Cloud Engineering practice.
- Keep abreast of emerging advances in cloud native development by studying and researching public cloud features and technology developments and incorporate those that will increase the efficiency and quality of our development process.
- Hire and mentor Cloud application engineers who represent the best and the brightest of the industry.
- Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders (Application Product teams, DevEx Tools, Cloud Security, Site Reliability Engineering etc.) to turn the Cloud Blueprints product vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
- Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and process for regular assessment and improvement. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code/PR reviews.
- Organize developer Bootcamps, participate in "Ask technical experts" communities, and assist community evangelization sessions on Cloud blueprints.
- Create and contribute to external blogs and the open-source community in order to represent Toyota and its values.
What we’ll bring:
During your interview process, our team can fill you in on all the details of our industry-leading benefits and career development opportunities. A few highlights include:
A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility and respect.
- Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement.
- Vehicle purchase & lease programs.
- Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family.
- Flexible work options based on business needs.
- Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match, as well as an annual retirement contribution from Toyota regardless of whether you contribute.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, child care, schools, and more.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Relocation assistance (if applicable).
To save time applying, Toyota does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this position at this time.
This position is eligible for remote work from qualifying locations. #LI-REMOTE
What you’ll bring:
- Experience in providing technical direction and leadership for software engineering and development, including experience developing, deploying, and scaling cloud-native software components on cloud providers such as AWS or Google Cloud.
- Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems
- Experience working with either Python, Java, Spring Boot, Typescript, Docker/Kubernetes, Postgres or any of the cloud native database technologies.
- Experience with at least one popular form of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, or an equivalent)
- Experience converting large monolithic systems into micro-service APIs (GraphQL/REST) that adhere to the 12-factor application methodology
- Demonstrated experience in mentoring, conflict resolution, as well as communication skills, not only within your team but within your product group and/or the whole engineering organization.
- Experience writing distributed, high-volume services, and have knowledge about using CI/CD tools to deploy and maintain them in production
- You communicate clearly and empathically, especially in writing and documentation.
Added bonus if you have:
- Experience working on remote globally distributed high-performing teams and largely asynchronous work environment
- Prior experience in building large scale distributed data intensive applications in Google Cloud Platform
- Contributions to open-source projects.
- Published blog posts and/or tech talks about your work.
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