Sr. Principal Engineer

Overview

Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like  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 talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow.

with us.

To save time applying, Toyota does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this position at this time.

This position is based in Plano, TX.

Our team is seeking a highly motivated person to fill an opening as a Sr. Principal Engineer, to help our growing needs.

• You will work alongside our talented team of software engineers, machine learning experts, product managers, and engineering leaders. Our Sr. Principal Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.
• You will promote a culture of engineering excellence and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next‑generation talent for TFS Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.
• Sr. Principal Engineers are expected to lead through technical contributions and develop long‑term technology roadmaps. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.
• In this role, you will lead development and implementation that will enable business initiatives, working with other leaders and teams across the enterprise to enable these solutions.

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non‑functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know‑how of our engineering and product community
• Explore new cloud technologies and identify applications to leverage their potential
• Develop patterns for cloud to enable emerging business initiatives
• Collaborate with tech leaders to drive tech strategy
• Evangelize cloud strategy, solutions, and best practices across the enterprise

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• 15+ years of hands‑on software development experience
• Proven experience in software development with a solid technical foundation with relevant experience in Java, Spring boot, NodeJS, REST API, Real‑time streaming architectures, microservices architecture patterns
• Demonstrated experience in developing scalable applications and platforms
• Experience leading, mentoring, and inspiring a team of software engineers, providing guidance, support and feedback to foster their professional growth and development.
• Deep expertise in software engineering frameworks with experience in designing and implementing cloud native business technology solutions.
• Practical knowledge of cloud platforms, advanced software design patterns & architecture, operations and GenAI powered SDLC
• Proven track record of delivering scalable cloud native solutions addressing cross cutting concerns like logging, application testing and application security and instrumentation by utilizing programming…