Software Engineer, Governance

Retool
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 163,800 - 306,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 2-8 yearsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving"]

Join Retool’s Governance team to build the security‑focused foundation between builders and data. You’ll develop cross‑stack systems including data access controls, admin onboarding, project permissions, and an automated security center to keep enterprise deployments safe, scalable, and easy to manage for thousands of users.

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Software Engineer, Governance

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Job Summary

Join Retool’s Governance team to build the security‑focused foundation between builders and data. You’ll develop cross‑stack systems including data access controls, admin onboarding, project permissions, and an automated security center to keep enterprise deployments safe, scalable, and easy to manage for thousands of users.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Data Access Control Layer: Design and build the system that enforces table-level, column-level, and row-level access controls across Retool's database connectors, including policy modeling and admin UX.
  • •Hub & Admin Setup: Redesign administrator onboarding and management, building the landing page, global search, guided setup, and admin dashboards for platform health and security insights.
  • •Projects: Build organizational primitives to group apps, agents, and workflows with membership and role-based permissions, including data model and UI for scalable team collaboration.
  • •Automated Security Center & Admin Control Panel: Create an intelligent layer to surface under-authenticated resources, monitor usage, and integrate with compliance tools for actionable insights.
  • •Spaces & Instance Management: Implement controls for governing multiple Retool Spaces and instances with policy enforcement and compliance checks.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 163,800 - 306,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401k

Key Requirements

  • •2–8 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally some of which you've spent at startups
  • •Experience owning technically challenging, cross-functional projects from start to finish
  • •Strong fundamentals across the entire stack, with a strong grasp of backend systems design, data modeling, and building reliable, scalable software
  • •You communicate clearly in design docs, code reviews, and cross-functional discussions
  • •You care about code quality, testing, and leaving the codebase better than you found it
Experience:2-8 yearsEnterprise softwareSecurityData governance
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:TerraformInfrastructure-as-codeDbtDatabricksRBACABACOPACedarOAuthSAMLSCIMAdmin UIData modelingBackend systems designPolicy enginesQuery rewriting

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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