Software Engineer, Core Services

re-tool

full-time

Posted on: 9/28/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $164,600 - $255,000 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesNode.jsTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Drive the architectural design and redesign of core Retool backend services, ensuring robustness, security, and efficiency (secure sandboxing, connection pooling, streaming).
Use secure runtime and sandboxing technologies like WASM and seccomp filters.
Own production services running in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
Own end-to-end projects, talk with customers, and support growth of Retool—the product and the business.
Collaborate across teams to implement secure, scalable backend systems and resolve production issues.

6+ years of experience in professional software development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups.
Built, maintained, debugged, and scaled backend systems and distributed services.
Keen understanding of security best practices and experience in designing secure systems.
Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in critical services.
Experience with cloud-based infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP, along with Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills and able to work effectively across multiple teams.
Familiarity with TypeScript and Node (bonus).
Experience right-sizing compute clusters, managing autoscaling groups (bonus).
Understanding of OS-level containerization and execution environments (bonus).
Experience building fault-tolerant message queues, worker pools, or distributed value stores (bonus).
Experience analyzing and tackling interesting and unusual new workloads (bonus).

Benefits

Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity, and/or commission/bonuses are dependent on the position offered.
Retool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location.
Pay and benefits are subject to change consistent with applicable compensation or benefit plans.

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

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