Software Engineer, Core Services

About the Position

Software Engineer, Core Services

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Location: San Francisco, United States

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ABOUT RETOOL

Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software for critical operations like tracking performance metrics, handling support workflows, building admin dashboards, and countless processes you might never have thought of. But most companies don't have the resources to properly invest in these tools, leading to a lot of old, clunky internal software, or worse, teams still stuck in manual and spreadsheet workflows.

AI has changed who gets to build software. The definition of "developer" now includes analysts, operators, and domain experts creating solutions directly-and the tools they reach for are multiplying by the week. That's both an opportunity and a challenge: as more people build with more AI tools, the risk of shipping ungoverned software into production grows just as fast.

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 cost of building software has collapsed. The cost of governing it hasn't-and that's the problem we solve.

Developers and domain experts have already automated over 100 million hours of work on our platform, freeing them to focus on creative problem-solving and strategic work that drives real business value. 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.

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WHY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU

Retool started as a way to address obstacles with internal tools and has grown into a company that solves internal tooling for thousands of companies (big and small). We’ve done a lot with a little – we have a growing engineering team and a laundry list of features and foundational improvements we want to tackle.

To continue our fast-paced growth, we need to build a world-class engineering team. You’ll help us get there by owning end-to-end projects, talking with customers, and ultimately supporting the growth of Retool-the product and the business.

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Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Drive the architectural design and redesign of core Retool backend services, ensuring robustness, security, and efficiency. This includes areas such as secure sandboxing, connection pooling, and streaming.
• Use secure runtime and sandboxing technologies like WASM and seccomp filters.
• Own production services running in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).

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Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in professional software development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups.
• Experience in building, maintaining, debugging, and scaling 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 ability to work effectively across multiple teams.

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Nice to Have

• Familiarity with TypeScript and Node.
• Experience in right-sizing compute clusters and managing autoscaling groups.
• Understanding of OS-level containerization and execution environments.
• Experience in building fault-tolerant message queues, worker pools, or distributed value stores.
• Experience in analyzing and tackling interesting and unusual new workloads.

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We Offer

• Competitive Salary: $163,800 – $306,000 per year.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
• Hybrid Work Location: Flexible work arrangements.
• Equity and/or Commission: Additional compensation based on the position offered.

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About the Company

At Retool, we are committed to building a platform that empowers developers and domain experts to create and deploy software safely and efficiently. Join our team to help us continue our mission of revolutionizing internal tooling for businesses around the world.