Engineering Manager, Enterprise Platform San Francisco

Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software for critical operations like tracking performance metrics, handling support workflows, building admin dashboards, and countless processes you might never have thought of. But most companies don't have the resources to properly invest in these tools, leading to a lot of old, clunky internal software, or worse, teams still stuck in manual and spreadsheet workflows.

AI has changed who gets to build software. The definition of "developer" now includes analysts, operators, and domain experts creating solutions directly—and the tools they reach for are multiplying by the week. That's both an opportunity and a challenge: as more people build with more AI tools, the risk of shipping ungoverned software into production grows just as fast. At Retool, we're building the platform that makes all of it safe to ship.

Build with any AI tool you want, then deploy into one place that connects to your real business data, enforces enterprise policies automatically, and lets teams create once and reuse everywhere with shared, trusted components. The cost of building software has collapsed. The cost of governing it hasn't—and that's the problem we solve. Developers and domain experts have already automated over 100 million hours of work on our platform, freeing them to focus on creative problem-solving and strategic work that drives real business value.

The people closest to the problem can now build the software to solve it, safely, and within enterprise guardrails. Let's build the future together.

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead Retool’s Enterprise Platform team—the team building the platform layer that governs how organizations adopt, secure, and scale Retool. Your team will make it possible for our largest customers to build and run apps, automations, and AI agents confidently across their organizations. The platform spans deployment infrastructure, permissions and access controls, audit logging, admin tooling, API / MCP integrations, and more.

As AI agents and AI-powered workflows become central to how enterprises use Retool, this foundation needs to evolve to support new compute and scaling demands, more complex authorization requirements, and new ways of operating software. Your team’s work will directly shape our customers’ ability to trust Retool and expand its use. You’ll lead a team of engineers through technically complex problems, balancing customer needs and execution speed with the long-term architectural soundness of the platform.

Working closely with Product, Design, and go-to-market partners, you’ll help set the team’s direction, make clear tradeoffs, and turn enterprise requirements into scalable capabilities. You’ll also build direct relationships with customers to understand how they use Retool, where they encounter friction, and what they need to grow. At Retool, we emphasize the word “leader.” We’re looking for someone who takes ownership, gets decisions made, keeps the team’s energy and tempo up, and continuously improves the environment for our engineers.

You’ll pair strong technical judgment with thoughtful people leadership, helping engineers grow while setting a high bar for execution, reliability, and customer impact.

• Lead a fullstack team building the capabilities that enable enterprises to adopt, deploy, and scale Retool.
• Partner with Product and Design to define the team’s strategy and roadmap, connecting technical investments to customer needs and business impact.
• Guide technical design and architecture across access controls, auditability, admin experiences, and integrations.
• Help the platform evolve to support AI agents and autonomous…