Support Engineer

WHY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU:

In the last year, we've grown our customer base over 5x and continued to enhance our product. As a result, we have more questions, feedback, and tickets coming in than ever before from developers using Retool. As we continue to grow, we're adding more customer-centric support engineers to help our customers build the systems and tools they need to run their business.

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

You'll work with other support engineers and software engineers to diagnose, troubleshoot, and solve customer problems. You'll also help train new coworkers on supporting our users. Support is a small team today, but rapidly expanding to match our customer growth.

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 bring energy and curiosity to everything they do. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Talk to users every day via Service Cloud and Zoom
• Teach Retool users best practices around performance and development workflows
• Explore our codebase, logs, and test instances to debug difficult problems
• Troubleshoot new bugs and formalize bug reports
• Represent customers internally and advocate for key issues
• Contribute to our documentation
• Help users debug issues with many different database types and APIs
• Analyze and improve our support operations--there's always new Retool apps to build!
• Help us track support metrics and share findings you identify

THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING:

• 2-4 years of experience working in technical and customer-facing roles
• Intermediate understanding of JavaScript and web development
• Experience supporting a SQL or NoSQL database management system
• Ability to communicate effectively through writing and in person
• Ability to think on your feet and come up with creative solutions to non-obvious problems
• Ability to empathize with customer challenges
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues in high-availability, production web environments
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, latency bottlenecks, and error handling in web services
• Ability to diagnose infrastructure-related incidents affecting SaaS uptime, including degraded service performance and regional outages
• Bonus points if you hold a relevant cloud certification such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer, or equivalent
• Additional bonus points if you know React and can fix minor bugs in our codebase

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 $112,500 - $184,000 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.