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Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure
Team
Software Engineering
Location
San Francisco, United States
ABOUT RETOOL
Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software: Gartner estimates that up to 50% of all code is written for internal use. This is the operational software for refunding orders, underwriting loans, onboarding employees, analyzing transactions, and providing customer support. But most companies don’t have adequate resources to properly invest in these tools, leading to a lot of old and clunky internal software or, even worse, users still stuck in manual and spreadsheet flows.
At Retool, we’re on a mission to bring good software to everyone. We’re building a new type of development platform that combines the benefits of traditional software development with a drag-and-drop UI editor and AI, making it dramatically faster to build internal tools. We believe that the future of software development lies in abstracting away the tedious and repetitive tasks developers waste time on, while creating reusable components that act as a force multiplier for future developers and projects. The result is not just productivity, but good software by default. And that’s a mission worth striving for.
Today, our customers span from small startups building their first operational tools to Fortune 500 companies building mission-critical apps for thousands of users across their business. Interested in joining us? Let us know!
WHY WE’RE LOOKING FOR YOU
Our core infrastructure team builds and optimizes foundational systems that power our databases, caching, and data storage architecture for reliability, security, performance, and scalability. As our Engineering Manager for core infrastructure, you’ll lead a team of engineers who are equal parts builders and operators crafting systems that make Retool faster, more resilient, and easier to develop on. You’ll combine technical depth with strong leadership instincts, guiding the team through ambiguity and tradeoffs to deliver outsized business impact.
This is a high-leverage role: the systems you oversee will directly impact how every product feature gets built, tested, deployed, and scaled.
IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL
- Lead and grow a team of infrastructure engineers and SREs responsible for Retool’s backend architecture/infrastructure for both cloud and on-premise deployments
- Set the long-term vision and roadmap for infrastructure, aligning with product engineering and business priorities
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure platform scalability, security, and performance to keep pace with our growth
- Drive initiatives in areas such as observability, CI/CD automation, networking, and developer tooling
- Define metrics and processes that improve developer productivity and reduce friction in how teams build and ship code
- Collaborate across teams to evolve our backend architecture for both cloud and self-hosted environments
THE SKILLSET YOU’LL BRING
- 4+ years successfully leading and managing infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering teams
- Deep technical understanding across cloud architecture, distributed systems, networking, and developer tooling
- Proven experience scaling infrastructure to support rapid product and user growth
- Strong operational experience — you care about observability, incident response, and system reliability
- History of improving developer velocity through better tooling, automation, and processes
- Proficiency in navigating through ambiguity, managing stakeholders, communicating in a structured manner, as well as driving maximal accountability and excellence
Retool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!
Retool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK. To find roles that can be employed in the UK, please refer to our careers page and review the indicated locations.