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 customer base continues to grow quickly and we’ve expanded our product offerings beyond our core product. As a result we have more questions, feedback, and tickets coming in from developers using Retool than ever before. As we continue to grow, we’re adding customer-centric support engineers focused on providing technical advice in public spaces (like our Developer Forum) to help our customers build the systems and tools they need to run their business. We’re building and curating an active developer community of folks who love to build, and also love to share knowledge to help their fellow builders achieve their goals with Retool.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
As a Community Support Engineer at Retool you’ll communicate high-quality, informative technical solutions for developers at organizations of all sizes in publicly accessible spaces that should unblock thousands of builders in the future. You’ll help answer their more difficult Retool development questions, troubleshoot connecting to many kinds of databases or APIs, and debug emerging issues. Often this will mean researching new topics and reporting back to customers on the best approach to achieve their goals. You’ll track and share trends in product feedback internally with Engineering and Product. You’ll also notice patterns and common themes in what developers need help on, and turn that into useful “how to” guidance and demo apps published as Retool Tips & Tricks.
Retool is a broad technical product, so ideally you are a generalist engineer and enjoy learning new technologies. Our platform supports over 30 integrations officially, so you’ll constantly be encountering novel situations. On a typical day you might help someone debug a database connection, unblock launching a new instance of Retool on a customer’s cloud provider, write examples of Javascript code for specific customer use cases, troubleshoot data structures, SQL queries, and API authentication — often live in our Community Office Hours, or via replies on our community forum.
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH:
You'll collaborate with the Community Support team based in San Francisco, along with other support and software engineers. You'll diagnose, troubleshoot, and solve customer problems, train new team members, and encourage active community developers to contribute.
Community Support rolls up to the larger Support org, which is still a small close-knit team despite spanning SF, NYC and London. You’ll be joining a broader team of Retools who are passionate about serving our customers, enjoy collaborating to build an incredibly innovative product, and approach the unknown with a sense of curiosity and humility. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:
- Interact with users every day via our Developer Forum, and via live Office Hours in Discord a few times per week
- Advise customers on questions around performance and development workflows, and debug issues with JavaScript, SQL, many different database types, and APIs
- Explore our codebase, logs, and test instances to debug difficult problems
- Maintain and curate our Developer Forum to reflect our brand and product. We want it to feel active, useful and accessible to our customers!
- Expand the concept of support beyond 1:1 help, to written content that is available to many users going forward and caters to different learning styles. For example, contribute to our Retool Tips & Tricks
- Advocate for improvements in content creation, tooling, and analysis to enhance documentation and our overall public knowledge experience
- Represent customers internally and advocate for key issues with Engineering and Product
- Seek opportunities to facilitate developer engagement with the product, for example by asking builders’ thoughts about a new feature during Office Hours, or prompting customer feedback when discussing features on the forum
- Analyze and improve our support process – there're always new Retool apps to build, and processes to design as we scale the 1:many support function
- Track support metrics and share findings
THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING:
- 2+ years of experience in a support engineering, engineering, advocacy, or educational role, such as creating technical content or leading a community of developers through forums and events.
- Intermediate understanding of JavaScript and web development
- Experience supporting a SQL or NoSQL database management system
- Familiarity with API and Identity authentication methods (i.e. OAuth 2.0, Okta, and/or SAML)
- Ability to lead troubleshooting calls and interact with customers live to advise on how to use the Retool product to achieve their goals, inspect secure networks to help solve specific issues, etc.
- Effective communication skills in English, both in writing and verbally
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to think creatively and come up with innovative solutions to non-obvious problems.
- Empathy towards customer challenges and a user-first mindset, actively seeking to collaborate with stakeholders to ensure satisfaction and understand their needs
- Strong passion for education and a builder mentality, actively empowering others through teaching
- Demonstrated ability to listen before speaking, actively promoting and uplifting subject-matter experts to build a community
- Ideally familiar with at least one major cloud provider (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GC) as well as Docker and/or Kubernetes
For candidates based in San Francisco, 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/bonuses 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.
San Francisco
$114,600—$155,200 USD
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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What We Do
Retool is a development platform for building business software. Users can visually design apps that interface with any database or API, and switch to code to customize how their apps look and work. With Retool, developers ship more apps and move their business forward—all in less time.
Thousands of teams at companies like Amazon, DoorDash, Peloton, and Brex collaborate around custom-built Retool apps to solve internal workflows. We're just getting started and growing quickly—join us!
Why Work With Us
Retools are solution drivers—whether fixing a button misalignment or enabling customers to build with the newest AI technologies, we wear many hats and act like owners. Our small teams work on big problems, pushing hard and moving quickly to create outsized impact. We hold each other accountable and celebrate together when we get it right. Join us!
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