Software Engineer, Retool

• 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

Desirable

• 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
• 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
• You'll 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)