Software Engineer, AI Governance

On the AI Governance team, Retool is building the foundational layer that sits between builders and data, including the policies, access controls, audit trails, and security infrastructure that enterprises rely on to scale Retool across their organizations. The role spans full-stack web development to product infrastructure and focuses on making Retool deeply trusted by its largest customers.

Responsibilities

Design and build the system that enforces table-level, column-level, and row-level access controls across Retool's database connectors, including policy modeling, query rewriting, and admin UX for configuring rules; Design and build primitives that ensure AI agents are soundly permissioned and observable; Build the intelligent security layer that surfaces under-authenticated resources, flags potentially dangerous access patterns, monitors usage analytics and spend, and integrates with compliance and DLP tools

Requirements

2–8 years of professional software engineering experience on high impact teams; ideally some of which has been at startups; Experience owning technically challenging, cross-functional projects from start to finish; Strong fundamentals across the entire stack, with a strong grasp of backend systems design, data modeling, and building reliable, scalable software; Communicates clearly in design docs, code reviews, and cross-functional discussions; Cares about code quality, testing, and leaving the codebase better than they found it; Motivated by solving real customer problems, not just writing clever code

Nice to have

Experience building authorization, access control, or security systems; Experience with policy engines, query rewriting, or data governance platforms; Familiarity with RBAC, ABAC, or relationship-based access control models (Zanzibar, OPA, Cedar); Familiarity with authentication and authorization protocols (OAuth, SAML, SCIM, or similar); Experience designing and taming complexity in admin-facing UIs or platform management tools

Benefits

Generous benefits to all employees; Comprehensive benefit plan including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k); Additional compensation in the form of equity and/or commission, depending on the position offered