Hybrid Software Engineer, Core Services

at re-tool

• Job title: Software Engineer, Core Services
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $164,600 - $255,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Node.js, Terraform, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Build and operate secure, scalable backend services (sandboxing, connectors, EKS) for Retool, a platform accelerating internal tool development.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architectural design and redesign of core Retool backend services, ensuring robustness, security, and efficiency (secure sandboxing, connection pooling, streaming).
• Use secure runtime and sandboxing technologies like WASM and seccomp filters.
• Own production services running in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
• Own end-to-end projects, talk with customers, and support growth of Retool—the product and the business.
• Collaborate across teams to implement secure, scalable backend systems and resolve production issues.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in professional software development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups.
• Built, maintained, debugged, and scaled backend systems and distributed services.
• Keen understanding of security best practices and experience in designing secure systems.
• Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in critical services.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP, along with Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and able to work effectively across multiple teams.
• Familiarity with TypeScript and Node (bonus).
• Experience right-sizing compute clusters, managing autoscaling groups (bonus).
• Understanding of OS-level containerization and execution environments (bonus).
• Experience building fault-tolerant message queues, worker pools, or distributed value stores (bonus).
• Experience analyzing and tackling interesting and unusual new workloads (bonus).

Benefits

• Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
• Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity, and/or commission/bonuses are dependent on the position offered.
• Retool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location.
• Pay and benefits are subject to change consistent with applicable compensation or benefit plans.