Hybrid Software Engineer, Internal Platform

at re-tool

• Job title: Software Engineer, Internal Platform
• 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 own foundational systems and tooling for Retool's internal platform. Improve testing, feature flags, database primitives, and collaborate with product teams and customers.

Responsibilities

• Own the foundational systems and tooling of our core codebase.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to identify their platform needs and provide solutions.
• Evangelize best practices for software development, testing, and deployment.
• Lead and contribute to high-impact projects including building primitives for reliable and efficient database access, upleveling our feature-flagging system, enhancing our testing harnesses (backend, frontend, end-to-end, visual regression), and making large-scale changes across our codebase to improve code quality (such as type safety).
• Own end-to-end projects, talk with customers, and support the growth of Retool—the product and the business.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as an individual contributor on fast-moving engineering teams.
• Ability to debug complex systems and identify root causes of issues across the stack.
• Experience with TypeScript and Node ecosystems.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools to ensure system health and performance.
• Strong understanding of system availability, resiliency, and recoverability.
• Strong organizational skills with high attention to detail, and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• A demonstrated history of cultivating productive, collaborative relationships both within engineering organizations and across the broader company.
• Bonus: Experience with Bazel (preferred but not required).
• Bonus: Experience with cloud-based infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP, along with Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.

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. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!