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Software Engineer, Core Services
Retool
New York$164k–306kHybrid9mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
About the role
- Drive 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.
- Use secure runtime and sandboxing technologies like WASM and seccomp filters
- Own production services running in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
- You have 6+ years of experience in professional software development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups
- You’ve built, maintained, debugged, and scaled backend systems and distributed services
- You have a keen understanding of security best practices and experience in designing secure systems
- You can demonstrate an ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in critical services
- You have experience with cloud-based infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP, along with Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform
- You have excellent communication and collaboration skills and are able to work effectively across multiple teams
- You’re familiar with TypeScript and Node
- You’ve right-sized compute clusters, managed autoscaling groups, etc.
- You understand OS-level containerization and execution environments
- You’ve built fault-tolerant message queues, worker pools, or distributed value stores
- You’ve analyzed and tackled interesting and unusual new workloads
Perks & benefits
- 401k
- Equity Compensation
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