Retool
Software Engineer, Core Services
San Francisco, United States · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2025
- Experience
- 6+ years of professional software development experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Retool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK; consult the careers page for UK-eligible role locations.
About the job
Design, operate, and improve backend services for code execution and data resource connectors across the Retool product.
What you'll do
- Architect and redesign core backend services for robustness, security, and efficiency, including sandboxing, connection pooling, and streaming.
- Use secure runtime and sandboxing technologies and own production services running in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
- Own end-to-end projects, work with customers, and collaborate across teams.
What they ask for
- Experience building, maintaining, debugging, and scaling backend systems and distributed services.
- Understanding of security best practices and experience designing secure systems.
- Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in critical services.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
Nice to have
- Startup experience.
- Familiarity with TypeScript and Node; experience with cluster sizing, autoscaling, OS-level containerization, or distributed systems.
Tools
WASM, seccomp filters, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Helm
AI focus
The posting describes Retool's AI-enabled product context but does not specify AI work for this role.
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