Principal Engineer - Enterprise OS Platform (Linux/Unix)
About The Position
Toyota is looking for team members who are passionate about technology and interested in joining a collaborative and highly motivated team as a Principal Engineer. The primary responsibility of this role is to own the vision, roadmap, and evolution of Toyota’s Linux/Unix platform, which supports Tier-0 and Tier-1 business systems, automation frameworks, data services, and AI workloads. This role ensures the platform strategy is secure, scalable, automation-first, and aligned to business, security, and AI priorities. Reporting to the Senior Manager, the person in this role will join the Cloud Engineering & Software Development Support team to build and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure and systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or at least 7 to 10 years of professional experience
- Experience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, Platform Lead, or similar role supporting enterprise infrastructure or platform services
- Strong experience administering or leading enterprise Linux/Unix platforms supporting critical production workloads
- Experience delivering automation, infrastructure-as-code, standardization, or self-service platform initiatives in large-scale environments
- Experience presenting technical strategy, roadmap direction, and delivery priorities to both technical and executive stakeholders
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting AI/ML, data platforms, or other advanced compute workloads in enterprise environments
- Experience with observability, AIOps, anomaly detection, predictive alerting, or automated remediation practices
- Experience in security-focused, regulated, or audit-driven environments
- Experience developing and executing multi-year technology roadmaps for shared infrastructure platforms
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain a multi-horizon Linux/Unix platform roadmap aligned to business, security, operational resilience, and AI priorities
- Anticipate future demand, lifecycle events, platform risks, and emerging technology needs to ensure proactive planning rather than reactive support
- Drive platform standardization through infrastructure-as-code, hardened baselines, standard images, and self-service operational capabilities
- Partner across infrastructure, application, security, and risk teams to improve platform stability, recovery readiness, observability, and compliance
- Reduce operational toil and fragmented patterns by advancing automation-first platform operations and scalable service delivery models
- Enable secure adoption of AI/ML and data workloads by evolving Linux platform capabilities to support performance, governance, and intelligent operations
- Translate platform strategy into measurable outcomes, milestones, and investment priorities, and communicate progress clearly to stakeholders
- Identify and consolidate overlapping OS platform responsibilities (e.g., hardening, lifecycle management, automation, observability) to increase leverage and reduce duplicated effort
Benefits
- 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
- 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)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
