Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
RetoolSan FranciscoPosted 15 March 2026
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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 infrastructure 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.
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