Principal Software Engineer, Developer Experience Platform at Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions

Department: 312500 - WW Software DevelopmentEducation: education_optional

Location: Durham, North Carolina
Level: staff+
Posted: Sep 1, 2026

Description

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is hiring a Principal Software Engineer, Developer Experience Platform to build and operate a developer-facing platform for its mature retail point-of-sale estate. The role owns end-to-end developer workflows from local development through CI/CD, deployment, production feedback, observability, and release automation, while also directing agentic engineering workers and AI coding agents. It requires substantial platform engineering experience, hands-on production platform development, strong Java and JavaScript, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, observability, secure software delivery, and agentic workflow expertise. The position is based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and includes medical, dental, and vision coverage.

Required Skills

Java
JavaScript
Maven
Docker
Kubernetes
GitLab/Jenkins
OpenTelemetry
CI/CD
Infrastructure as code
Agentic engineering

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Substantial software or platform engineering experience with sustained Staff or Principal-level influence across multiple teams or products
Recent hands-on experience shipping and operating production platform code, automation, integrations, or delivery infrastructure
Experience designing and delivering internal developer platforms or large-scale engineering enablement in complex production environments
Experience with CI/CD architecture, build systems, Maven, GitLab/Jenkins, artifact management, and release automation
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, infrastructure as code, environment lifecycle management, and cloud and store-edge deployment models
Practical observability expertise across metrics, logs, traces, profiling, OpenTelemetry, service-level objectives, and failure analysis
Working knowledge of secure software delivery, including secrets, identity and access, policy automation, dependency controls, SBOMs, provenance, signing, and least privilege
Experience directing AI coding agents or agentic engineering workflows, including task decomposition, context design, tool permissions, output review, and deterministic validation
Ability to influence globally distributed engineering, quality, platform, security, operations, and delivery teams without direct reporting authority
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with retail POS, payments, store systems, peripherals, or other high-availability edge environments
Experience improving Java and JavaScript workflows across many repositories, including portals, catalogs, scaffolding, ownership metadata, and platform-product operating models
Understanding of large Cucumber/Selenium or other browser-driven test estates and their integration into the broader developer journey
Experience building agent platforms, reusable agent skills, model-context integrations, or governed multi-agent engineering workflows