Software Engineer, Core Services
Builds and scales secure backend services for code execution and data connectors, focusing on architecture, sandboxing, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure. Requires 6+ years experience with cloud platforms, security practices, and distributed systems.
About the job
Responsibilities
- 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).
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in professional software development, ideally some in startups.
- Built, maintained, debugged, and scaled backend systems and distributed services.
- Keen understanding of security best practices and experience designing secure systems.
- Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in critical services.
- Experience with cloud-based infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP, along with Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Nice-to-Haves
- Familiar with TypeScript and Node.
- Right-sized compute clusters, managed autoscaling groups.
- Understand OS-level containerization and execution environments.
- Built fault-tolerant message queues, worker pools, or distributed value stores.
- Analyzed and tackled interesting and unusual new workloads.
Compensation
Base pay range: $163,800 – $306,000 per year.
Skills
Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Helm, Wasm, Seccomp, TypeScript, Node.js, EKS, GCP
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