Golang Job: Staff Software Engineer

Who we’re looking for

Toyota is looking for a smart, passionate technology leader who has a keen sense of ownership and a strong engineering mindset. As a Staff Engineer in the Cloud Platforms team, you will be responsible for defining, building, and prioritizing new applications/services, formalizing development methodologies, operations, and platform strategy for Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud platforms. This position requires deep customer-focused thinking, the ability to be hands-on and to make faster decisions. We are looking for self-motivated individuals who are highly detail-oriented and take pride in their deliverables.

What you’ll be doing

• Understand the experience team's needs and define features/technical specifications for a Platform that would provide self-service infrastructure at Toyota’s manufacturing locations and Parts Distribution centers.
• Build IoT Edge services and infrastructure on top of Private Cloud Platform using microservices and streaming platforms.
• Lead, Design, and implement Kubernetes workload Infrastructure components and cloud-native application blueprints to deploy code in low memory/CPU/GPU environments.
• Build and Design Hybrid Cloud patterns/blueprints for seamless interaction with Public Cloud services.
• Run experiments to pilot emerging cloud platform features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members from Cloud, Product, and Engineering to deliver against quarterly and annual cloud migration objectives.
• Lead, coach, pair with software engineers of diverse backgrounds to write clean and iterative code based on TDD.
• Engage in code and architecture reviews helping maintain our coding standards and provide cost optimization guidance.
• Lead architecture meetings and technical discussions with the focus of reaching consensus and best practice solutions.
• Lead the team in defining technical requirements and solutions and drive projects through to completion.
• Break down tasks for other engineers and offer guidance to other engineers on the team when they are blocked.
• Create engaging technical content, including writing internal company blog posts, white papers, practical guides, and platform demos.
• Stay current with industry trends and recommend relevant technologies and products in the areas of Private, Public, and Hybrid Clouds.
• Nurture a culture of ownership, learning, automation, re-use, and engineering efficiency using software design patterns and industry best practices.
• Be a leader, evangelist within your team and the organization.

What you bring

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• Progressive application development and engineering experience; demonstrable technical leadership experience in new platform development, product ownership, and iterative design.
• Knowledge of Edge infrastructure and application design for IoT workloads.
• Extensive experience leveraging AWS/Azure/GCP Platform to deploy highly reliable and scalable cloud applications.
• Demonstrated ability in building cloud-native and 12-factor full-stack applications using container technologies, i.e., Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, OpenShift) and modern frameworks built using Java, Typescript, Golang, etc.
• Expert level knowledge of system design; high-performance computing; file, block, and storage technologies; integration of computing, storage, and network technologies to deliver cohesive infrastructure solutions.
• Thorough understanding of building cloud-native infrastructure using evolutionary architecture practices.
• Demonstrated work experience in writing functional and maintainable code.
• Expert at working with service-based application architectures and familiar with various API protocols (e.g., GraphQL, gRPC) and messaging protocols (e.g., MQTT).
• Motivated and Self-Starting: able to think critically about problems, decipher user preferences versus hard requirements, and effectively use online and onsite resources to find an appropriate solution with little intervention.
• Demonstrated experience in research data collection, analysis, and presentation.

Added bonus if you have

• GitHub presence with contribution and/or collaboration with open-source communities.
• Demonstrated experience in using OPC-UA or any other machine to a machine communication protocol for Industrial Automation.
• Working knowledge of AWS and/or Azure IoT stacks.
• Experience working in large, multi-faceted, and matrixed organizations.
• Experience in the automotive industry.

What we’ll bring