Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure

retool • San Francisco, CA

73d

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees