Backend Engineer - Secure, Scalable Systems on Kubernetes

Retool; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work location

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Job summary

Retool is building a platform to safely ship complex internal tooling at scale. We are hiring a senior backend-focused engineer to own and evolve the core services that power our product's data and execution layers.

You will lead architecture, implement secure runtimes, and own production workloads on Kubernetes-based infrastructure (EKS). The role emphasizes security, performance, and cross-team collaboration in a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Backend systems and distributed services experience.
• Security best practices in system design.

Responsibilities

• Architect and redesign core backend services for robustness, security, and efficiency.
• Implement secure runtimes and sandboxing technologies like WASM and seccomp.
• Own production services running on Amazon EKS.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Security best practices

Performance tuning

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Retool is building a platform to safely ship complex internal tooling at scale. We are hiring a senior backend-focused engineer to own and evolve the core services that power our product's data and execution layers.

You will lead architecture, implement secure runtimes, and own production workloads on Kubernetes-based infrastructure (EKS). The role emphasizes security, performance, and cross-team collaboration in a hybrid work setting.