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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.\nAI 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.\nAt 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.\nDevelopers 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.\nLet's build the future together.\nWHY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU\nRetool 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.\nTo 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.\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\nThe 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.\nIN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:\nDrive 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.\nUse secure runtime and sandboxing technologies like WASM and seccomp filters\nOwn production services running in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)\nTHE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING\nYou have 6+ years of experience in professional software development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups\nYou’ve built, maintained, debugged, and scaled backend systems and distributed services\nYou have a keen understanding of security best practices and experience in designing secure systems\nYou can demonstrate an ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in critical services\nYou have experience with cloud-based infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP, along with Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform\nYou have excellent communication and collaboration skills and are able to work effectively across multiple teams\nBONUS POINTS\nYou’re familiar with TypeScript and Node\nYou’ve right-sized compute clusters, managed autoscaling groups, etc.\nYou understand OS-level containerization and execution environments\nYou’ve built fault-tolerant message queues, worker pools, or distributed value stores\nYou’ve analyzed and tackled interesting and unusual new workloads\nFor candidates based in the United States, the pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings (OTE) for commissionable roles. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Retool and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors such as (but not limited to), scope and responsibilities, the candidate’s experience and qualifications, and location.\nAdditional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.\nThe base pay range for this role is $163,800 - $306,000 per year.\nRetool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!\nRetool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK. 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