Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

About the Position

Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Join Retool's Cloud Platform team as a Software Engineer to build and automate foundational systems for reliability, security, and performance.

Responsibilities

In this role, you'll:

• Scale Retool’s core cloud platform for high availability and performance globally
• Work collaboratively with the rest of the engineering team to deliver infrastructure for core and emerging products
• Evolve our backend architecture/infrastructure for both cloud and on-premise deployments
• Work with the team to set and prioritize our roadmap to maximize customer impact
• Define and automate developer process/workflow
• Support our systems in production
• Develop new data solutions
• Build monitoring and observability for production systems

Requirements

• You have a track record of delivering engineering projects and process improvements
• You have experience scaling cloud infrastructure
• You enjoy building and productionizing developer productivity tools, frameworks, and other aspects of platform engineering
• You have experience with inner workings of Linux, containers (Docker, containerd), and container orchestration technologies (e.g. docker-compose, Kubernetes)
• You have a track record of building productive, collaborative relationships, both within an engineering org and across the broader company
• You enjoy the ambiguity and high-ownership culture of early-stage startups
• You are pragmatic, solution-oriented, and scrappy
• You enjoy working collaboratively with a broad range of job functions and roles
• You have experience with our tech stack: Node, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes
• You have experience scaling relational databases (Postgres preferred)
• You have good knowledge of cloud, on-prem, traffic routing, service architecture in multi-region setup.

We Offer

• Competitive Salary: $163,710 – $306,000 per year
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• Hybrid Work Location: Flexible work arrangements
• Generous Perks: Additional benefits and perks available on our careers page

About the Company

At Retool, we're building the platform that makes all of it safe to ship. Build with any AI tool you want, then deploy into one place that connects to your real business data, enforces enterprise policies automatically, and lets teams create once and reuse everywhere with shared, trusted components. The people closest to the problem can now build the software to solve it, safely, and within enterprise guardrails.

Let's build the future together.