Gem

Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Gem$163K — $306K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Track record of delivering engineering projects and process improvements
  • Experience scaling cloud infrastructure
  • Skilled in building developer productivity tools and frameworks
  • Familiar with Linux, Docker, and container orchestration technologies (e.g. Kubernetes)
  • Strong collaborative relationship-building abilities
  • Comfortable in an early-stage startup environment
  • Solution-oriented and pragmatic approach to challenges
  • Hands-on experience with Node, Postgres, Docker, and Kubernetes
  • Expertise in scaling relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
  • Knowledge of cloud and on-premise architecture in multi-region setups.

Responsibilities

  • Scale Retool's cloud platform for high availability and global performance
  • Collaborate with engineering team to deliver infrastructure for key products
  • Evolve backend architecture for cloud and on-premise deployments
  • Prioritize and set roadmap actions to maximize customer impact
  • Define and automate developer processes and workflows
  • Support production systems post-deployment
  • Develop new data solutions and enhance system observability.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefit plan including medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match
  • Hybrid work location flexibility
  • Equity compensation possibilities
  • Opportunity to work in a high-ownership culture of a startup.
Full Job Description
IN THIS ROLE, YOU'LL:

  • Scale Retool's core cloud platform for high availability and performance globally
  • Work collaboratively with the rest of the engineering team to deliver infrastructure for core and emerging products
  • Evolve our backend architecture/infrastructure for both cloud and on-premise deployments
  • Work with the team to set and prioritize our roadmap to maximize customer impact
  • Define and automate developer process/workflow
  • Support our systems in production
  • Develop new data solutions
  • Build monitoring and observability for production systems


THE SKILLSET YOU'll BRING:

  • You have a track record of delivering engineering projects and process improvements
  • You have experience scaling cloud infrastructure
  • You enjoy building and productionizing developer productivity tools, frameworks, and other aspects of platform engineering
  • You have experience with inner workings of Linux, containers (Docker, containerd), and container orchestration technologies (e.g. docker-compose, Kubernetes)
  • You have a track record of building productive, collaborative relationships, both within an engineering org and across the broader company
  • You enjoy the ambiguity and high-ownership culture of early-stage startups
  • You are pragmatic, solution-oriented, and scrappy
  • You enjoy working collaboratively with a broad range of job functions and roles
  • You have experience with our tech stack: Node, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes
  • You have experience scaling relational databases (Postgres preferred)
  • You have good knowledge of cloud, on-prem, traffic routing, service architecture in multi-region setup.


For candidates based in the United States, the pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings (OTE) for commissionable roles. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Retool and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors such as (but not limited to), scope and responsibilities, the candidate's experience and qualifications, and location.

Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.

The base pay range for this role is $163,710 - $306,000 per year.

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.

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