Principal Engineer I - IIoT Platform

Overview

Who we are

Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like at Toyota. As one of the worlds 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. Were looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow. with us.

Toyota does not offer support or sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this role now or in the future. You must have the right to work in the United States and not require Toyota support or sponsorship for immigration-related employment (e.g. H-1B O-1 E-3 H-1B1 TN F-1 OPT F-1 STEM OPT F-1 CPT job flexibility benefits also known as I-140 or Adjustment of Status portability etc.) now or in the future. You should not apply for this role if you will require Toyota to assist with immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future.

Who were looking for

ToyotasManufacturing ITDepartment is looking for a passionate and highly motivated IIoT Platform Engineer.

The primary responsibility of this role is to develop configure and support the Industrial IoT platform that enables real-time data flow application development and digital solutions across TBMNC.

Reporting to the IIoT Platform & Gemba Enablement manager the person in this role will support the Manufacturing IT departments objective to enable team members to rapidly solve problems by providing a scalable and reliable IIoT platform.

This position will be located at Toyota Motors Battery Plant in Liberty NC. The selected candidate will be expected to reside within a commutable distance of this location .

What youll be doing

• Own the internal platform as a product including published interfaces versioned releases clear support models and adoption metrics.

• Build and operate the container platform including multi-stage image builds hardened non-root base images a signed artifact registry and promotion through local QA staging and production environments.

• Run production workloads on Kubernetes including deployments configuration and secrets management resource limits rollout strategies and safe rollback procedures.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions including test lint security scanning build signing and deployment steps with environment gates and automated rollback on failed health checks.

• Define infrastructure as code so every environment is reproducible from source and manually configured servers are eliminated.

• Create golden paths such as templates scaffolds and shared libraries so application teams can move from an empty repository to a running observable secure service with minimal friction.

• Build backend services and APIs that support high-volume event streaming at scale including backpressure buffering and store-and-forward capabilities for intermittently connected clients.

• Design and maintain data contracts and schema standards including versioning and backward compatibility rules.

• Instrument the platform end to end with metrics structured logs traces and alerts and establish measurable SLOs for throughput latency and availability.

• Own secrets and credential management certificate lifecycle and rotation image and dependency scanning and least-privilege access across the platform.

• Build ETL and data integration pipelines connecting internal services enterprise systems and cloud data stores.

• Operate the platform through on-call support incident response blameless postmortems and permanent fixes that prevent repeat issues.

• Partner with engineering teams as internal customers to gather requirements reduce friction and publish documentation and runbooks.

• Mentor engineers on platform practices and help guide technical decisions across projects.

• Modernize legacy codebases and migrate them onto the supported platform.

Qualification Section

What you bring

• Bachelors degree in a related engineering/technical field and/or 7 or more years of equivalent experience

• 7 years of software engineering experience in a professional environment

• 5 years building and operating backend services in Go Python or a comparable language

• 5 years with containerization and orchestration (Docker/Podman Kubernetes)

• 5 years designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions GitLab CI or similar)

• 5 years with PostgreSQL SQL Server or equivalent including schema design and tuning

• 5 years designing and operating RESTful APIs and backend services

• Hands-on infrastructure as code (Terraform Ansible Helm or equivalent) and GitOps delivery

• Production experience with observability tooling metrics logs traces and alerting

• Linux systems administration networking fundamentals and TLS/PKI in practice

• Secrets management and secure software supply chain practices no credentials in code
• Strong problem-solving using 5 Why analysis (or similar) and the ability to debug

Added bonus if you have

• Cloud platform experience (AWS preferred) and hybrid edge-to-cloud architectures
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling
• Service mesh ingress or API gateway experience
• Time-series or event-streaming data stores at scale
• Performance profiling and capacity planning for high-throughput systems
• TypeScript/React for platform-facing consoles and operational dashboards

What well bring
During your interview process our team can fill you in on all the details of our industry-leading benefits and career development opportunities. A few highlights
include:

• A work environment built on teamwork flexibility and respect
• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career as well as tuition reimbursement
• Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount
• Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program (if applicable)
• Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family
• Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match as well as an annual retirement contribution from Toyota regardless of whether you contribute (if applicable)
• Paid holidays and paid time off
• Referral services related to prenatal services adoption childcare schools and more
• Tax-Advantaged Accounts (Health Savings Account Health Care FSA Dependent Care FSA)
• Relocation Assistance (if applicable).

Belonging at Toyota

Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace all perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star.

Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race ethnicity national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability religion military or veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.

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