Description:
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