Sr. Software Engineer II

KFC • Plano, TX

8d

About The Position

As the Sr. Software Engineer II (Technical Lead) for Byte Edge, you will own the technical direction and hands-on implementation of our edge computing platform that powers restaurant operations across thousands of locations. You will act as a senior individual contributor and technical leader, setting architectural direction while remaining deeply involved in building core systems. Byte Edge enables quick-service restaurants to operate autonomously at the store level, sustaining 24+ hours of offline operation while processing thousands of daily orders with reliable synchronization to POS systems, kitchen displays, and management dashboards. You will design and build distributed systems that run on in-store hardware, balancing performance, reliability, and operational simplicity in environments with intermittent or unreliable connectivity. This role will directly shape how Byte delivers reliable, offline-capable technology to thousands of restaurants globally. The systems you design will be foundational to in-store resiliency, developer velocity, and operational excellence across the Byte platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience operating production distributed systems
• Experience acting as a technical lead, owning system design and guiding engineering decisions
• Technical proficiency in Go (1.21+) for high-performance, low-memory service
• Distributed messaging systems such as NATS JetStream, Kafka, or similar
• Kubernetes and Helm for container orchestration
• Authentication and authorization using OAuth2 and JWT
• Strong experience with Event-driven and streaming architectures
• CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab CI or GitHub Actions
• Docker and containerized service development
• Designing systems for resource-constrained or embedded environments

Nice To Haves

• Experience with MQTT and cloud-to-edge messaging bridges
• Experience with edge Kubernetes management platforms such as Spectro Cloud Palette
• Knowledge of high-availability patterns including multi-node clustering and fast failover
• Background in restaurant technology, point-of-sale systems, or retail operations
• Experience with GraphQL federation or domain graph services

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and implementation of edge services in Go, including the cloud-to-edge synchronization bridge and authentication gateway
• Design and optimize messaging patterns for high-throughput, low-latency event streaming across unreliable networks
• Own the technical strategy for offline-first architecture, ensuring durability and eventual consistency during extended network outages
• Build and maintain Kubernetes deployments via Helm charts for edge clusters managed through Spectro Cloud Palette
• Optimize services for memory, CPU, and disk constrained environments typical of in-store hardware
• Collaborate with cloud platform teams to design seamless cloud-to-edge data flows using MQTT-based bridging
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, and mentorship of engineers
• Partner with Product and DevOps to plan phased rollouts and gradual migrations from legacy systems

Benefits

• Employees (and their eligible family members) may enroll in the following types of insurance coverage: medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment, as well as FSA/HSA (depending on enrolled medical plan).
• Yum! also provides short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Employees may enroll in our 401(k) plan.
• Yum! provides 4 weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, a floating day off and 2 paid days for volunteer time each calendar year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level