Feeny
Retool

Software Engineer, Cloud Platform at Retool (San Francisco, CA)

Retool· San Francisco, CA· $164k–$306k·

Role details

Salary
$164k–$306k
Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time
Equity
Yes
Commission
Yes

Job description

WHY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU

Retool is in an exciting hyper-growth phase and we need infrastructure engineers to tackle our rapid scaling challenges. These scaling challenges are unique both in scope and in technical complexity as we scale both the company and the product.

As a member of the Cloud Platform team, you will build and automate foundational systems for reliability, security, performance, developer velocity, and scale. Whether you’re interested in wide breadth or deep depth, there are both opportunities for both. You will work cross functionally, supporting the engineering, product, design, customer success, support, and sales functions.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU'LL

  • Scale Retool’s core cloud platform for high availability and performance globally
  • Work collaboratively with the rest of the engineering team to deliver infrastructure for core and emerging products
  • Evolve our backend architecture/infrastructure for both cloud and on-premise deployments
  • Work with the team to set and prioritize our roadmap to maximize customer impact
  • Define and automate developer process/workflow
  • Support our systems in production
  • Develop new data solutions
  • Build monitoring and observability for production systems

THE SKILLSET YOU'll BRING

  • You have a track record of delivering engineering projects and process improvements
  • You have experience scaling cloud infrastructure
  • You enjoy building and productionizing developer productivity tools, frameworks, and other aspects of platform engineering
  • You have experience with inner workings of Linux, containers (Docker, containerd), and container orchestration technologies (e.g. docker-compose, Kubernetes)
  • You have a track record of building productive, collaborative relationships, both within an engineering org and across the broader company
  • You enjoy the ambiguity and high-ownership culture of early-stage startups
  • You are pragmatic, solution-oriented, and scrappy
  • You enjoy working collaboratively with a broad range of job functions and roles
  • You have experience with our tech stack: Node, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes
  • You have experience scaling relational databases (Postgres preferred)
  • You have good knowledge of cloud, on-prem, traffic routing, service architecture in multi-region setup.

Why work at Retool

  • Culture: The company values ambition, intense curiosity, energy, and deep care. They emphasize moving fast, acting like an owner, and being both demanding and supportive.
  • Work Environment: Hybrid model with offices in San Francisco, New York, Salt Lake City, and London. The company believes great work happens when teams collaborate in person.
  • Product Impact: Employees are close to the product and use Retool internally, giving them a direct voice in improving it. The mission is to enable a wider community of builders to create production-grade software safely.
  • Hiring Process: Structured, with initial recruiter/hiring manager chats, a technical evaluation or practical exercise, and a final round of 3–5 interviews. The company aims for transparency and candidate preparation.
  • Employee Sentiment: Employer rating of 3.4/5.0 (127 reviews). Strengths include Work-Life Balance (4.1) and Culture (3.7). Compensation (3.4) and Career (3.4) are areas for potential improvement.

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