Software Engineer, Core Services

ABOUT RETOOL
Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software for critical operations like tracking performance metrics, handling support workflows, building admin dashboards, and countless processes you might never have thought of. But most companies don't have the resources to properly invest in these tools, leading to a lot of old, clunky internal software, or worse, teams still stuck in manual and spreadsheet workflows.
AI has changed who gets to build software. The definition of "developer" now includes analysts, operators, and domain experts creating solutions directly—and the tools they reach for are multiplying by the week. That's both an opportunity and a challenge: as more people build with more AI tools, the risk of shipping ungoverned software into production grows just as fast.
At Retool, we're building the platform that makes all of it safe to ship. Build with any AI tool you want, then deploy into one place that connects to your real business data, enforces enterprise policies automatically, and lets teams create once and reuse everywhere with shared, trusted components. The cost of building software has collapsed. The cost of governing it hasn't—and that's the problem we solve.
Developers and domain experts have already
automated over 100 million hours of work
on our platform, freeing them to focus on creative problem-solving and strategic work that drives real business value. The people closest to the problem can now build the software to solve it, safely, and within enterprise guardrails.
Let's build the future together.
WHY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU
Retool started as a way to address obstacles with internal tools and has grown into a company that solves internal tooling for thousands of companies (big and small). We’ve done a lot with a little – we have a growing engineering team and a laundry list of features and foundational improvements we want to tackle.
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.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
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.
IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:
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)
THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING
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
BONUS POINTS
You’re familiar with TypeScript and Node
You’ve right-sized compute clusters, managed autoscaling groups, etc.
You understand OS-level containerization and execution environments
You’ve built fault-tolerant message queues, worker pools, or distributed value stores
You’ve analyzed and tackled interesting and unusual new workloads
Retool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!
Retool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK. To find roles that can be employed in the UK, please refer to our careers page and review the indicated locations.