Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Software Engineer, Cloud PlatformNearly every company in the world runs on custom software for critical operations like tracking performance metrics, handling support workflows, building admin dashboards, and countless processes you might never have thought of. 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. AI 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. At 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. Developers 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. Let's build the future together.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 Cloud Platform 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 globallyWork collaboratively with the rest of the engineering team to deliver infrastructure for core and emerging productsEvolve our backend architecture/infrastructure for both cloud and on-premise deploymentsWork with the team to set and prioritize our roadmap to maximize customer impactDefine and automate developer process/workflowSupport our systems in productionDevelop new data solutionsBuild monitoring and observability for production systemsThe skillset you'll bring:You have a track record of delivering engineering projects and process improvementsYou have experience scaling cloud infrastructureYou enjoy building and productionizing developer productivity tools, frameworks, and other aspects of platform engineeringYou 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 companyYou enjoy the ambiguity and high-ownership culture of early-stage startupsYou are pragmatic, solution-oriented, and scrappyYou enjoy working collaboratively with a broad range of job functions and rolesYou have experience with our tech stack: Node, Postgres, Docker, KubernetesYou have experience scaling relational databases (Postgres preferred)You have good knowledge of cloud, on-prem, traffic routing, service architecture in multi-region setup.