Manager, Site Reliability Engineering Tooling

7 Minutes ago • All levels • Devops

Job Summary

Job Description

Toast is seeking a Manager for their Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Tooling team. This role involves leading a geographically distributed team of engineers, driving daily operations, and developing the SRE roadmap. The manager will spearhead organization-wide initiatives focused on scalability, observability, and reliability in collaboration with technical leadership and Product Management. Key responsibilities include influencing architectural decisions to optimize resilience and scalability, guiding teams in building and maintaining reliable systems for customers, and mentoring engineers. The position requires hands-on coding experience in languages such as Kotlin, Go, Python, or Java/JVM, and a strong background in leading complex engineering projects within a Scrum environment. The ideal candidate will have experience with distributed systems, networking, cloud architectures, SaaS solutions, and managing SRE teams, including hiring and mentoring.
Must have:
  • Manage SRE team, including hiring and mentoring
  • Hands-on coding with Kotlin, Go, Python, Java/JVM
  • Lead complex engineering projects in Scrum
  • Experience building and running distributed systems
  • Exposure to cloud infrastructure and SaaS
Good to have:
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Exposure to networking and cloud architectures
  • Deep understanding of systems and scaling issues
Perks:
  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Programs for healthy lifestyle and flexibility

Job Details

Toast is driven by building the platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and focus on what they do best: creating experiences their guests love. Tremendous business growth has spurred a need for significant investment in Toast's platform teams. The Site Reliability Engineering team at Toast is responsible for overseeing Toast production services, with a commitment to quality, reliability, and low latency — without needing heroics. The team accomplishes this goal by:

  • Building tooling to automate, monitor, and manage deployed services using reliability best practices
  • Developing and evangelizing patterns and best practices to improve the scalability, observability, and reliability of all Toast systems
  • Consulting with teams to improve product scalability, observability, security, and reliability
  • Participating in outage response and root cause analysis for critical systems and infrastructure incidents

As a Manager of the Site Reliability Engineering team, you will provide technical leadership and hands-on code contributions, incorporating reliability best practices for programming and scripting, observability, production triage, incident resolution, and retrospective/root cause analysis to maintain the world-class reliability and uptime of our platform. 

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

  • Enable a geographically distributed team of talented engineers to continue performing at a high level and help increase the impact of their work
  • Drive day-to-day operations of the team and contribute to the development and prioritization of the SRE roadmap for major initiatives
  • Create and drive strategic organization-wide scalability, observability, and reliability initiatives in collaboration with technical leadership and Product Management
  • Influence architecture decisions for your team and for individual services to optimize resilience and scalability
  • Guide teams to build and maintain systems that are reliable and available for Toast customers
  • Facilitate professional growth by mentoring engineers on your team

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

  • Hands-on experience managing an SRE team, including hiring, mentoring, cross functional collaboration
  • Hands-on coding experience with Kotlin, Go, Python, Java/JVM
  • Background in leading complex engineering projects in a Scrum environment
  • Experience in building and running distributed systems
  • Exposure to networking, cloud architectures, and patterns 
  • Deep understanding of systems, networking, and scaling issues
  • Direct exposure to cloud infrastructure and SaaS solutions

**This is a hybrid role requiring in-office presence two days per week**

Our Spread* of Total Rewards
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. 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. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

*Bread puns encouraged but not required



 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together

We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.

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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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