Software Engineer III

Who is Taco Bell?

Taco Bell was born and raised in California and has been around since 1962. We went from selling everyone's favorite Crunchy Tacos on the West Coast to a global brand with 7,500+ restaurants, 350 franchise organizations, that serve 42+ million fans each week around the globe. We're not only the largest Mexican-inspired quick service brand (QSR) in the world, we're also part of the biggest restaurant group in the world: Yum! Brands. Much of our fan love and authentic connection with our communities are rooted in being rebels with a cause. From ensuring we use high-quality, sustainable ingredients to elevating restaurant technology in ways that haven't been done before... we will continue to be inclusive, bold, challenge the status quo and push industry boundaries. We're a company that celebrates and advocates for different, has bold self-expression, strives for a better future, and brings the fun while we're at it. We fuel our culture with real people who bring unique experiences. We inspire and enable our teams and the world to Live Más.

At Taco Bell, we're Cultural Rebels. Want to join in on the passion-fueled fun? Learn more about the career below.

About the Job

The SOFTWARE ENGINEER III is responsible for developing, testing, deploying, and supporting scalable software and integration services within Taco Bell's Customer Middleware platform, helping connect digital ordering, loyalty, customer identity, messaging, and restaurant experiences. In this role, you will contribute to technical design, implement solutions within established architecture and engineering patterns, and help strengthen the reliability and maintainability of Taco Bell's customer technology ecosystem alongside an experienced team of engineers. The SOFTWARE ENGINEER III will report to the Sr. Manager, Software Engineering as an individual contributor.

The Day-to-Day

• Build, test, deploy, and maintain cloud-based APIs, event-driven services, integrations, and data-processing workflows that support customer identity, loyalty, digital ordering, messaging, customer care, and restaurant experiences.

• Contribute to translating product and business requirements into technical designs, API contracts, implementation plans, and well-defined engineering stories, working with senior engineers, architects, and partner teams to identify integration dependencies, edge cases, and operational risks.

• Partner with software engineers, quality engineers, product leaders, platform teams, vendors, and external delivery teams to coordinate implementation, testing, defect resolution, and production validation across connected systems (including E-Commerce, Braze, Akamai, and AWS).

• Participate in code and technical design reviews, provide actionable feedback to peers, and apply and contribute to established engineering standards for reliability, security, maintainability, observability, automated testing, and deployment.

• Investigate and help resolve complex production and non-production issues using application logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and test results; collaborate with engineering and platform teams on remediation of environment-dependent behavior, rate limits, integration failures, and security findings.

• Contribute to improvements in the engineering lifecycle by addressing technical debt, applying reusable software patterns, expanding automation, documenting system behavior, and supporting secure, dependable releases through CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices.