Support Engineer, Retool
Night Shift
$87-146.1k
Salary dependant on location
Low-code internal tools building software
Be an early applicant
Low-code internal tools building software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$87-146.1k
Salary dependant on location
201-500 employees
Company mission
Retool's mission is to create the future of internal software by making software development for engineers simpler and more accessible.
Role
Who you are
- 2-4 years of experience working in technical and customer-facing roles
- Intermediate understanding of JavaScript and web development
- Experience supporting a SQL or NoSQL database management system
- Ability to communicate effectively through writing and in person
- Ability to think on your feet and come up with creative solutions to non-obvious problems
- Ability to empathize with customer challenges
- Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues in high-availability, production web environments
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, latency bottlenecks, and error handling in web services
- Ability to diagnose infrastructure-related incidents affecting SaaS uptime, including degraded service performance and regional outages
- Holds a relevant cloud certification such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer, or equivalent
- Advanced knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and enterprise authentication systems (OAuth 2.0, SAML, Okta)
- Bonus points if you know React and can fix minor bugs in our codebase
What the job involves
- In the last year, we’ve grown our customer base over 5x and continued to enhance our product. As a result, we have more questions, feedback, and tickets coming in than ever before from developers using Retool. As we continue to grow, we’re adding more customer-centric support engineers to help our customers build the systems and tools they need to run their business
- You’ll work with other support engineers and software engineers to diagnose, troubleshoot, and solve customer problems. You’ll also help train new coworkers on supporting our users. Support is a small team today, but rapidly expanding to match our customer growth
- You’ll be joining a broader team of Retools who are passionate about serving our customers, enjoy collaborating to build an incredibly innovative product, and partake in some occasional-but-well-intentioned sarcasm. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
- As a Support Engineer at Retool, you’ll communicate with developers of all sizes to help unblock technical issues. You’ll help answer their more difficult Retool development questions, troubleshoot connecting to many kinds of databases or APIs, and brainstorm app structure and best practices. Often, this will mean researching new topics and reporting back to the customer on the best approach to achieve their goals
- The working hours for this role are from 5pm to 2am PST
- Retool is a broad technical product, so ideally, you are a generalist engineer and enjoy learning new technologies. Our platform supports over 30 integrations, so you’ll constantly encounter novel situations.
- On a typical day, you might help someone debug a database connection, write examples of JavaScript code for specific customer use cases, troubleshoot data structures, SQL queries, and API authentication—often live or on an impromptu screen-share
Our take
Retool allows developers to build internal applications quickly using a complete set of ready-made building blocks. These internal applications can be used to display company data from a range of sources, including Redis, Salesforce, Google Cloud, and Slack.
For a monthly fee, the platform enables companies to save time that they would have otherwise spent on developing their own internal applications. Retool brands itself as 'low-code,' meaning that it is easy to use and customize. There is a huge demand for systems that allow teams to analyze the data they already have. Retool already counts brands such as Amazon, Philips, Peloton, NBC, and Mercedes-Benz as customers.
Retool was founded in 2017, and the company is now valued at over $1 billion. Founded by Oxford graduate David Hsu, the management team includes ex-Stripe and ex-Airbnb employees with plenty of experience in taking a company from a start-up to a global brand. Retool was awarded $45 million in Series C in 2022, which it is using to expand its workforce, tweak its platform, and develop new products.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2022
$45m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$20m
SERIES C
Total funding: $165.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive healthcare, dental and vision benefits
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner at our San Francisco and New York offices
- $1,200 annual stipend for anything learning-related (books, conferences, classes, etc.)
- $1,000 work-from-home-setup stipend
- Flexible PTO
- Family planning support and paid parental leave
- 401(k) Matching
- Mental health and wellness benefits
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
David Hsu
(CEO)David studied Philosophy and Computer Science at the University of Oxford, before founding Retool in 2017. He has served as CEO ever since.
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