Software Engineer, Core Services

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>ABOUT RETOOL</strong></p> <p>Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software: Gartner estimates that up to 50% of all code is written for internal use. This is the operational software for refunding orders, underwriting loans, onboarding employees, analyzing transactions, and providing customer support. But most companies don’t have adequate resources to properly invest in these tools, leading to a lot of old and clunky internal software or, even worse, users still stuck in manual and spreadsheet flows. </p> <p>At Retool, we’re on a mission to bring good software to everyone. We’re building a new type of development platform that combines the benefits of traditional software development with a drag-and-drop UI editor and AI, making it dramatically faster to build internal tools. We believe that the future of software development lies in abstracting away the tedious and repetitive tasks developers waste time on, while creating reusable components that act as a force multiplier for future developers and projects. The result is not just productivity, but good software by default. And that’s a mission worth striving for. </p> <p>Today, our customers span from small startups building their first operational tools to Fortune 500 companies building mission-critical apps for thousands of users across their business. Interested in joining us? Let us know! </p></div><p data-start="68" data-end="659"><strong data-start="68" data-end="97">WHY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU</strong></p> <p data-start="68" data-end="659">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.</p> <p data-start="68" data-end="659">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.</p> <p data-start="661" data-end="905"><strong data-start="661" data-end="679">WHAT YOU'LL DO</strong></p> <p data-start="661" data-end="905">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.</p> <p data-start="907" data-end="936"><strong data-start="907" data-end="934">IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:</strong></p> <ul data-start="937" data-end="1308"> <li data-start="937" data-end="1146"> <p data-start="939" data-end="1146">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.</p> </li> <li data-start="1147" data-end="1228"> <p data-start="1149" data-end="1228">Use secure runtime and sandboxing technologies like WASM and seccomp filters.</p> </li> <li data-start="1229" data-end="1308"> <p data-start="1231" data-end="1308">Own production services running in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).</p> </li> </ul> <p data-start="1310" data-end="1341">&l ... (truncated, view full listing at source)