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Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Retool· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$164k - $360kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Observability-focused infrastructure engineer role building and scaling observability platforms and related tooling to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance for Retool’s products and internal systems.

Responsibilities

  • Help build a great product that improves productivity of engineers across the globe by several orders of magnitude
  • Design and build observability solutions via collection frameworks, delivery, analysis, and visualization of metrics, logs, and traces
  • Work with engineers, designers, product managers and customer support to instrument and implement observability into our products and internal apps
  • Building orchestration and automation tooling around off-the-shelf solutions (e.g. Datadog), as well as building custom solutions that meet our unique needs
  • Be involved in the development of scalable, distributed software systems that support globally distributed customer base
  • Coach and mentor other SRE/SWE; Provide leadership in iteratively defining & refining development processes as the team grows

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of related professional experience, with 2+ years in a lead role for a mission critical platform with high-availability requirements
  • Experience with containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) and observability (e.g. Datadog, Stackdriver, Wavefront, Grafana) stacks
  • A strong understanding of system availability, resiliency, and recoverability
  • Comfortable being a hands-on individual contributor, while at the same time hiring and scaling the team
  • Strong organizational skills with high attention-to-detail and able to work independently with minimal supervision
  • Ability to thrive in a high-energy, high-growth, fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Willing to learn new skills and implement new technologies

Skills

Required:Observability solution designDockerKubernetesTerraformDatadog / observability toolsSystem availability & resiliency

Benefits

  • Retool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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