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# Software Engineer, Enterprise Expansion at Retool

- **Company:** Retool
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $164k–$306k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/retool/am9icG9zdDoX5onwu3TB7uo8a_dW4mEb

## Job description

## WHY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU

AI is making it possible for anyone to build software in minutes. But building quick solutions to individual problems is very different from multiple teams building projects to solve a wide range of use cases across the entire organization. The challenge that enterprises are facing today is not “how do we build it?” but “how can we build this together at scale?”

On the Enterprise Expansion team, you’ll build and own systems and solutions that enable customers to organize, manage, and secure Retool at scale. Our team owns the full customer journey, from administrator setup and onboarding, to how teams discover and manage their work, to scaling spaces and instances for thousands of employees across the organization.

Your work will span the entire technical stack, from full-stack web development to data pipelines and product infrastructure. You'll focus on the problems that matter most to customers: What slows them down? What keeps their security teams up at night? How do we make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard? This team is responsible for making Retool easily configurable and deeply trusted by our largest customers.

## PROJECTS YOU MIGHT WORK ON

- Hub & Admin Setup: Redesign how administrators onboard and manage Retool. Build the landing page experience, global search, and the guided setup flow that gets enterprises from sign-up to first production app faster. Surface security insights, flag under-authenticated resources, and create the admin dashboard that makes platform health visible at a glance. Build the features that change Retool from something that admins manage to a system that is self managing and self healing, with proper admin oversight and controls.
- Projects: Build the new organizational primitive for Retool. Projects group apps, agents, and workflows into a shared space with their own membership and role-based permissions. You'll design the data model, build the permissions layer, and create the UI that gives teams a clear home base, replacing a flat, unstructured console with something that scales to hundreds of teams.
- AI Cost Visibility & Controls: Build the solutions that give enterprises the ability to define who can use AI, how much, and what happens when a limit is approached or reached – moving Retool from passive visibility to active governance of AI spend. You’ll design and build the telemetry pipelines, backend systems, and user experience that gives visibility and controls for the AI usage and spend of our largest customers.
- Spaces & Instance Management: Build the controls that let enterprises govern multiple Retool Spaces and instances from a single pane of glass. Enforce organization-wide policies, like requiring all Spaces to use a specific SSO provider or AI configuration, and proactively identify misconfigurations or deviations from compliance requirements.

## THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING

- 2–8 years of professional software engineering experience on high impact teams; ideally some of which at startups
- Experience owning technically challenging, cross-functional projects from start to finish
- Strong fundamentals across the entire stack, with a strong grasp of backend systems design, data modeling, and building reliable, scalable software
- You communicate clearly in design docs, code reviews, and cross-functional discussions
- You care about code quality, testing, and leaving the codebase better than you found it
- You're motivated by solving real customer problems, not just writing clever code

## NICE TO HAVE

- Familiarity with Terraform or infrastructure-as-code practices
- Exposure to dbt, Databricks, or data pipeline tooling
- Familiarity with billing, cost controls, and usage analytics
- Familiarity with products/systems with user/role based access controls
- Experience designing and taming complexity in customer-facing UI/UX, platform management tools and APIs

## WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

You'll join a team that sits at the intersection of security, platform infrastructure, and product experience. You'll work alongside engineers, product managers, and designers who care deeply about making enterprise governance feel effortless rather than burdensome. You'll also partner closely with teams across Retool because governance touches everything.

We're a hard-working, passionate bunch who are motivated by collaboration, strong results, and bringing the impact of Retool to our customers. When we're in the office, we enjoy eating lunch together, and we've been known for our lively game nights. But at the root of it all, we come together to show our customers and not-quite-yet customers how Retool can make them and their companies more efficient and successful.

We're building systems that the largest companies in the world will rely on to keep their data safe and their teams productive. If you want your work to be foundational, the kind of engineering that unlocks everything else, this is the team.

Location: San Francisco, CA

## About Retool

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Retool provides a platform for building, deploying, and managing custom internal software and AI applications by connecting to any database, API, or LLM.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: David Hsu (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Software Development, Enterprise Internal Tools, AI Application Platform
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, SMB; specifically developers, IT teams, and business operators building internal software
- **Mission or purpose**: To enable companies to build production-ready internal software and AI applications dramatically faster, with enterprise-grade security and governance, so that domain experts and developers alike can solve critical business problems.

## Products & Services
- **Retool App Builder**: A low-code platform to build custom internal apps (dashboards, admin panels, CRUD tools) by connecting to databases and APIs. Type: SaaS/Platform.
- **Retool Workflows**: A visual automation tool to build and orchestrate complex business processes and backend logic. Type: SaaS/Platform.
- **Retool AI**: An AI-powered app generation capability that transforms natural language into production-ready applications, agents, and workflows, integrating with any LLM. Type: AI Feature/Platform.
- **Retool Mobile**: A solution to build and deploy internal mobile apps from the same Retool platform. Type: SaaS/Platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last round was Series C).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $5 million (as per LinkedIn company data); Total Funding of $141.3 million.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (lead), Nat Friedman, John Collison, Daniel Gross. Customers include Amazon, Stripe, Brex, and Orangetheory Fitness.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 10,000 organizations use Retool. The company has automated over 100 million hours of work. It has 6 offices across the US and UK. Despite a recent headcount reduction (-11% YoY), it maintains a strong brand in the enterprise internal tools space and is aggressively pivoting into AI-powered app generation.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Enterprise Governance from Day One**: Unlike point solutions, apps built in Retool are production-ready and pass security reviews, eliminating the need for rebuilds or audit scrambles.
- **Deep Data Connectivity**: Securely connects to existing databases, APIs, and internal systems, ensuring apps run on real data with real permissions.
- **Unified Platform**: One platform to manage, orchestrate, and scale all internal apps, agents, and workflows, providing centralized visibility and governance for IT.
- **Trusted by Large Enterprises**: A strong customer base of high-profile companies (Amazon, Stripe, Brex) serves as a powerful validation of its enterprise readiness.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI as the Core Platform**: Retool is positioning itself as the "first enterprise AppGen platform," where AI is used to generate production-ready code from natural language, expanding the definition of "developer" to include analysts and operators.
- **Scaling Enterprise Features**: The company is focused on building out governance, security, and platform capabilities to support large-scale deployments across complex organizations.
- **International Expansion**: With offices in London and a German-speaking Sales Engineer role, Retool is actively expanding its presence in the European market.

## Why Work Here
- **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.

## Sources
1. [retool.com](https://retool.com/)
2. [retool.com/careers](https://retool.com/careers)
3. [retool.com/about](https://retool.com/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/tryretool](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryretool)
5. [jobs.gem.com/retool](https://jobs.gem.com/retool)

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