Software Engineer, Core Services

United States·San Franciscofull-timemid

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Key Responsibilities

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,

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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.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

The Core Services team owns key backend services powering broad areas of the Retool product, including code execution and the infrastructure behind resource connectors that allow customers to connect Retool to their data.

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)

THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING

You have 6+ years of experience in professional software development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups
You’ve built, maintained, debugged, and scaled backend systems and distributed services
You have a keen understanding of security best practices and experience in designing secure systems
You can demonstrate an ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in critical services
You have experience with cloud-based infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP, along with Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform
You have excellent communication and collaboration skills and are able to work effectively across multiple teams

BONUS POINTS

You’re familiar with TypeScript and Node
You’ve right-sized compute clusters, managed autoscaling groups, etc.
You understand OS-level containerization and execution environments
You’ve built fault-tolerant message queues, worker pools, or distributed value stores
You’ve analyzed and tackled interesting and unusual new workloads

For candidates based in the United States, the pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings (OTE) for commissionable roles. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Retool and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors such as (but not limited to), scope and responsibilities, the candidate’s experience and qualifications, and location.

Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.

The base pay range for this role is $163,800 – $306,000 per year.