# Staff Engineer, Cloud Security at Toast

- Company: Toast
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Remote
- Location: Remote, US
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: Security
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $151K–309K
- Posted: 2026-10-20
- Skills: Cloud Security, AWS
- Apply: https://careers.toasttab.com/jobs?gh_jid=8267000

## Description

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. 
 The Product & Platform Security team at Toast protects the cloud infrastructure and services that restaurants depend on every day. We are looking for a Staff Engineer, Cloud Security to expand the scope and coverage of our cloud security capabilities. You will join an existing cloud security team and take a role in setting direction for how Toast secures its cloud environments. This is a hands-on role with technical leadership responsibilities: you will build and operate security tooling and controls yourself, while also shaping strategy, mentoring teammates, and influencing the roadmaps of engineering teams across R&D. 
 Our footprint is primarily AWS. You will work closely with Platform and Infrastructure teams in R&D, and with Defense & Response and other Security Engineering teams within Trust & Security. 
 A day in the life (Responsibilities) 
• Own and operate our Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), including tuning, coverage, integrations, and turning findings into prioritized, actionable work for engineering teams. 
• Lead cloud security posture management (CSPM) across our AWS organization and accounts, defining standards and measuring adherence over time. 
• Drive identity and access management improvements, including least privilege, role and permission design, and reducing standing access. 
• Secure our container environments, from image and workload security

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