Retool · 1 week ago
Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
7+ years expRetool is a company on a mission to improve internal tooling for businesses of all sizes through innovative software solutions. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Observability team to build and deploy observability solutions that enhance product reliability and scalability.
Enterprise SoftwareProductivity ToolsSoftwareSoftware Engineering
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Familiarity with GitHub, CI/CD, DevOps
Familiarity with React, React Native frontend web and mobile application development
Experience with observability platforms and tools like Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace etc
Benefits
Generous benefits
Hybrid work location
Company
Retool
Retool is a software development company that offers solutions in AI apps, documentation, developer tools, and external apps.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Retool has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (13)
2024 (12)
2023 (5)
2022 (13)
2021 (4)
2020 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$141MKey Investors
Sequoia Capital
2022-07-27Series C· $45M
2021-12-22Series C· $20M
2020-10-20Series B· $50M
Leadership Team
David Hsu
Founder, CEO
Recent News
SV Angel
2025-12-01
Company data provided by crunchbase