6 months ago
Responsibilities
- Build table-level, column-level, and row-level access controls across database connectors.
- Design policy models, query rewriting, and admin UX for configuring data security rules.
- Develop governance primitives that ensure agents are appropriately permissioned and observable.
- Build an automated security center and admin control panel to identify risky access, monitor usage and spend, and provide actionable governance insights.
- Integrate governance capabilities with compliance and data loss prevention tools.
- Own technically challenging, cross-functional engineering projects from design through completion.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and teams across Retool.
Requirements
- 2–8 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally including startup experience.
- Experience owning technically challenging, cross-functional projects from start to finish.
- Strong full-stack fundamentals, including backend systems design, data modeling, and reliable scalable software development.
- Clear communication in design documents, code reviews, and cross-functional discussions.
- Commitment to code quality, testing, and improving existing codebases.
- Experience building authorization, access control, or security systems is preferred.
- Experience with policy engines, query rewriting, or data governance platforms is preferred.
- Familiarity with RBAC, ABAC, or relationship-based access control models such as Zanzibar, OPA, or Cedar is preferred.
- Familiarity with OAuth, SAML, SCIM, or similar authentication and authorization protocols is preferred.
- Experience designing admin-facing UIs or platform management tools is preferred.
Benefits
- Generous employee benefits.
- Hybrid work location.
- San Francisco, California location.
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.