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Application Security Engineer

Retool · San Francisco, United States · On-site

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About Retool

Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business. Backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator.

About the role

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.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in application security and security engineering: you’ve built things, not only assessed them, and your background is not mainly consulting, audit, or compliance work
  • Communication that earns trust: you can make security legible to engineers without being preachy, and you measure your impact by how well you’ve supported the business, not by how many issues you catalogued
  • A track record of shipping security tooling or automation that improved things for more than one team
  • Genuine engineering depth: you can read, reason about, and review code at the level needed to find real bugs and understand their root causes, not just pattern-match to a checklist
  • Comfort working in TypeScript and Python: Retool’s platform is built in TypeScript and our security tooling leans on Python, you’ll need to be productive in both and not just conversant
  • Strong AppSec fundamentals: threat modeling, secure code review, a working understanding of common vulnerability classes and, importantly, how to address them durably rather than symptomatically
More about this role

ABOUT RETOOL

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...

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