Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like at Toyota. As one of the world’s most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We’re looking for diverse, talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow. with us.
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Who We’re Looking For
Toyota’s Cloud and Developer Experience (DevEx) Department is looking for a passionate and highly motivated Staff Engineer.
The primary responsibility of this role is to leverage your experience developing large-scale, highly complex, distributed applications on public cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) to build products made available through the Chofer platform.
Reporting to the Sr. Manager, the person in this role will support the Cloud and Developer Experience (DevEx) department's objective to reduce complexity and improve the development velocity and time to market of our software engineering teams that utilize Cloud computing.
What You’ll Be Doing
Lead software architecture and designs that provide reusable, robust, and well-documented products.
Understand customer needs and what technical requirements are needed to achieve their objectives.
Write and test product or system development code.
Review code written by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, efficiency, and observability).
Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders (Application Product teams, DevEx Tools, Cloud Security, Site Reliability Engineering, etc.) to gather requirements, assess needs, and design efficient solutions that align with organizational and enterprise objectives
Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and process for regular assessment and improvement. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code/PR reviews.
Troubleshoot and resolve product or system issues. Track through complete RCA process, leading blame-aware incident reviews.
Help guide engineers to develop new products and oversee the successful execution of projects throughout the year while ensuring that the team meets technical standards.
Contributing to the development of long-term technical strategies and roadmaps, and influencing the technical direction of our platform products
Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
Work with your team to clarify technical requirements, assess development estimates and apply a broad range of design approaches
What You Bring
Excellent communication skills with ability to influence both technical and business stakeholders
Independently lead complex technical initiatives within your team
Experience building trusted partnerships across diverse teams
At least 7+ years' experience in providing technical direction and leadership for software engineering and development, including at least 3+ years 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
Proven aptitude in leading teams in iterative and incremental software delivery to create successful products
You've worked with either Python, Java, Spring Boot, Typescript, Docker/Kubernetes, Postgres or any of the cloud native database technologies.
Knowledge of observability and monitoring best practices
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.
You've written distributed, high-volume services, and have knowledge about using CI/CD tools to deploy and maintain them in production
You have an implicit drive to improve. 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 a largely asynchronous work environment
Contributions to open-source projects.
Published blog posts and/or tech talks about your work.
Polyglot experience delivering software products utilizing a variety of technology stacks
Experience developing innovative tooling that enhanced productivity for cross-functional teams with a commitment to empowering colleagues
Experience utilizing AI tools to enhance productivity and efficiency or in leveraging AI-driven solutions to streamline workflows and optimize processes will be highly valued.
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.
Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount.
Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program (if applicable).
Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family.
Flextime and virtual work options (if applicable).
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, childcare, schools and more.
Tax Advantaged Accounts (Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, Dependent Care FSA)
Belonging at Toyota
Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace diverse perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star. Toyota is proud to have 10+ different Business Partnering Groups across 100 different North American chapter locations that support team members’ efforts to dream, do and grow without questioning that they belong.
Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.
Have a question, need assistance with your application or do you require any special accommodations? Please send an email to talent.acquisition@toyota.com.