Principal Engineer I – IIoT Platform

Toyota•Carolina, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Toyota’s Manufacturing IT Department 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 department's 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s 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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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.

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 (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)