1 year ago
Responsibilities
- Drive the architectural design and redesign of core Retool backend services.
- Build secure sandboxing and runtime systems using WebAssembly and seccomp filters.
- Own production services running in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service.
- Build, maintain, debug, and scale backend systems and distributed services.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in critical services.
- Design secure systems and apply security best practices.
- Right-size compute clusters and manage autoscaling groups.
- Build fault-tolerant message queues, worker pools, and distributed value stores.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software development experience.
- Experience building, maintaining, debugging, and scaling backend systems and distributed services.
- Strong understanding of security best practices and experience designing secure systems.
- Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in critical services.
- Experience with cloud-based infrastructure such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across multiple teams.
- Familiarity with TypeScript and Node is a bonus.
- Experience with OS-level containerization and execution environments is a bonus.
- Experience analyzing and addressing unusual workloads is a bonus.
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About Retool
Retool builds a developer platform for quickly creating internal apps, workflows, and automations by combining visual components with code and connecting to existing databases and APIs. It sells cloud and self‑hosted enterprise subscriptions with governance, security, and permissions features for large organizations. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and used by engineering and operations teams across many industries.