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Salary: USD 150,000 - 180,000 / annual
Resend is a fast-growing developer platform for email, serving over 4 million developers. The Platform Squad is responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure, tools, and systems that keep Resend running reliably, securely, and at scale.
In this role, you will build and improve the platform powering Resend, providing reliable infrastructure and tooling that enables engineers to move quickly and safely. You'll design and operate scalable cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS, with a focus on reliability, performance, and security. You'll automate operational work and build self-service workflows that make common infrastructure and engineering tasks easier for teams across the company.
You'll establish platform standards and patterns that help teams build, deploy, and operate services consistently, and improve reliability and observability across Resend, including participating in incident response and turning operational issues into lasting improvements. You'll partner with engineers across Resend to solve infrastructure and platform problems and build reusable solutions.
Resend values meaningful ownership, autonomy, a high bar for quality, and a collaborative, low-ego team environment. The fully remote team spans 15 countries and is backed by a16z and Y Combinator. Some travel is expected for team offsites, conferences, and meetups.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or SRE
- Strong experience managing production infrastructure as code using tools like AWS CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi
- Understanding of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure (queues, workers, databases, caching, networking, load balancing)
- Solid working knowledge of AWS
- Strong experience with observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Comfortable working across the stack, from load balancers and networking to delivery pipelines
- Ability to take ownership, communicate trade-offs clearly, and work independently while knowing when to ask for help
- Clear communication in written and spoken English with consistent overlap with Americas working hours
PREFERRED:
- Experience operating high-throughput systems at scale
- Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, or self-service infrastructure
- Background in developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure
- Deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres
