Engineering Manager, Retool
Core Infrastructure
$188.4-251.9k
The application layer for AI
Open for applications
The application layer for AI
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$188.4-251.9k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the future of internal software by making software development for engineers simpler and more accessible.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years successfully leading and managing infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering teams
- Deep technical understanding across cloud architecture, distributed systems, networking, and developer tooling
- Proven experience scaling infrastructure to support rapid product and user growth
- Strong operational experience — you care about observability, incident response, and system reliability
- History of improving developer velocity through better tooling, automation, and processes
- Proficiency in navigating through ambiguity, managing stakeholders, communicating in a structured manner, as well as driving maximal accountability and excellence
What the job involves
- Our core infrastructure team builds and optimizes foundational systems that power our databases, caching, and data storage architecture for reliability, security, performance, and scalability
- As our Engineering Manager for core infrastructure, you’ll lead a team of engineers who are equal parts builders and operators crafting systems that make Retool faster, more resilient, and easier to develop on
- You’ll combine technical depth with strong leadership instincts, guiding the team through ambiguity and tradeoffs to deliver outsized business impact
- This is a high-leverage role: the systems you oversee will directly impact how every product feature gets built, tested, deployed, and scaled
- Lead and grow a team of infrastructure engineers and SREs responsible for Retool’s backend architecture/infrastructure for both cloud and on-premise deployments
- Set the long-term vision and roadmap for infrastructure, aligning with product engineering and business priorities
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure platform scalability, security, and performance to keep pace with our growth
- Drive initiatives in areas such as observability, CI/CD automation, networking, and developer tooling
- Define metrics and processes that improve developer productivity and reduce friction in how teams build and ship code
- Collaborate across teams to evolve our backend architecture for both cloud and self-hosted environments
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.
Founded in 2017, the company is now valued at over $3.6B. 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.
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Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2022
$45m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$20m
SERIES C
Total funding: $165.3m
Company benefits
- Your health: Our healthcare plans include flexible, competitive options for medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and disability benefits.
- Your fuel: Fully snack-stocked kitchens at every turn, with breakfast, lunch and dinner provided at our San Francisco and New York offices.
- Your growth: We provide a $1,200 annual stipend that can be utilized for all learning-related expenses, including books, conferences, classes, and more.
- Your family: Access to comprehensive family planning services, generous paid parental leave for new parents, and a remarkable $10,000 lifetime benefit towards fertility support.
- Your time: Flexible freedom for a healthier you: take the time off that you need, when you need it! Discover flexible PTO and our 4 week Work From Anywhere policy to rejuvenate on your time.
- Your sidekick: Bring your favorite sidekick to work and enjoy our dog-friendly offices!
- Your future: Plan for your future. We offer enrollment and matching up to 4% for our US-based employees.
- Your wellbeing: Enjoy a suite of perks and memberships that enable you to thrive both personally and professionally.
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
David Hsu
(Founder & 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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