Hybrid Software Engineer, Core Services

Posted 2 weeks ago

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About the role

  • 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.

Job title

Software Engineer, Core Services

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$164,600 - $255,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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