Own the technical direction and hands-on implementation of our edge computing platform
Act as a senior individual contributor and technical leader, setting architectural direction while remaining deeply involved in building core systems
Design and build distributed systems that run on in-store hardware, balancing performance, reliability, and operational simplicity in environments with intermittent or unreliable connectivity

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
Additional Qualifications
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

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.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

Godistributed systemsKubernetesHelmOAuth2JWTevent-driven architecturestreaming architectureCI/CDDocker

Soft Skills

technical leadershipsystem designengineering decision guidance