About the Role As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer on the Compute & Storage Platform team in Toast, you will design, build, and operate the foundational distributed systems powering the Toast platform as the company expands into further international markets and broadens its product offerings to encompass retail shopping. You will bridge the gap between core infrastructure and cutting-edge product development—building low-latency state and storage systems, scalable compute clusters, and high-throughput streaming pipelines. Your work will directly enable Toast product delivery across our Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC). For this role it is a requirement that you 5+ years of industry experience Key Responsibilities Online Databases and Storage: Architect, deploy, and manage low-latency, highly available storage solutions (RDS Postgres and Aurora Postgres; DynamoDB; OpenSearch; S3) to power applications across the Toast product ecosystem. High Availability & Realtime Performance: Ensure sub-second end-user latency, near-zero-downtime reliability, and high throughput across storage engines to support Toast's products across POS, phone, computer, drive-thru, and kiosk interfaces. Infrastructure for AI-Driven PDLC: Automate infrastructure provisioning and compute pipelines. Cost Optimization & Performance Engineering: Right-size compute/storage resources, implement auto-scaling policies, and manage AWS infrastructure costs without compromising platform reliability or latency SLAs. Required Qualifications 1. Core Infrastructure & Automation Cloud & Infrastructure as Code: Hands-on experience building and managing scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.). Software Development: Fluency in Python , Go , or a similar language for infrastructure automation, tooling, or backend development. 2. Storage & Compute Operations Databases: Deep experience operating and tuning enterprise
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Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What Is the Role We are on the lookout for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Elasticsearch team and focus on ensuring that the shared platform functionalities of Elasticsearch are easy to use, performant, maintainable, and secure. The team’s mission is to create
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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation; If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role
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