Software Engineer, Core Services

Retool
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 163,800 - 306,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Drive architectural design and redesign of core backend services powering Retool, focusing on robustness, security, and efficiency. Work with technologies like WASM, seccomp, and EKS, contributing to secure runtimes, sandboxing, and scalable cloud infrastructure while coordinating across multiple teams to support internal tooling for thousands of users.

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Job Summary

Drive architectural design and redesign of core backend services powering Retool, focusing on robustness, security, and efficiency. Work with technologies like WASM, seccomp, and EKS, contributing to secure runtimes, sandboxing, and scalable cloud infrastructure while coordinating across multiple teams to support internal tooling for thousands of users.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Drive the architectural design and redesign of core Retool backend services, ensuring robustness, security, and efficiency (including 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)
  • •Collaborate across multiple teams to ship end-to-end projects and support customers
  • •Contribute to architectural decisions and improvements enabling scalable internal tooling

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 163,800 - 306,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:MedicalDentalVision401k

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of professional software development, ideally at startups
  • •Built, maintained, debugged, and scaled backend systems and distributed services
  • •Keen understanding of security best practices and designing secure systems
  • •Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in critical services
  • •Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (Azure, AWS, or GCP) plus Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform
Experience:6+ yearsSaaSEnterprise software
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:WASMSeccompKubernetesEKSTerraformHelmAWSAzureGCPTypeScriptNodeDocker

Company Brief

Retool
Provides a low-code platform for building internal tools and business applications, enabling developers and teams to assemble UIs on top of databases and APIs to accelerate operational workflows.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2017
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