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Platform Engineer

Resend· Engineering
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Remote$150k - $180kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Platform-focused role building and maintaining resilient, scalable infrastructure and tooling to support Resend’s developer-focused email platform.

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve the platform that powers Resend, providing reliable infrastructure and tooling that enables engineers to move quickly and safely
  • Design and operate scalable cloud infrastructure, primarily on AWS, with a focus on reliability, performance and security
  • Automate operational work and build self-service workflows that make common infrastructure and engineering tasks easier
  • Establish platform standards and patterns that help teams build, deploy, and operate services consistently
  • Improve reliability and observability across Resend, including participating in incident response and turning operational issues into lasting improvements
  • Partner with engineers across Resend to solve infrastructure and platform problems and build reusable solutions

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience across infrastructure engineering, platform, or SRE
  • Strong experience managing production infrastructure as code, using tools like AWS CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi
  • Understand distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, including queues, workers, databases, caching, networking, and load balancing
  • Solid working knowledge of AWS
  • Strong experience with observability and monitoring, using tools like Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
  • Comfortable working across the stack, from load balancers and networking to delivery pipelines
  • Take ownership, communicate trade-offs clearly, and are comfortable working independently while knowing when to ask for help
  • Communicate clearly in written and spoken English and can consistently overlap with Americas working hours
  • Have operated high-throughput systems at scale (exceptional)
  • Have built internal platforms, developer tooling, or self-service infrastructure (exceptional)
  • Have worked on developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure (exceptional)
  • Have deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres (exceptional)

Skills

Required:Infrastructure as codeAWSObservability / MonitoringDistributed systems
Nice to have:Node.js / TypeScript / Go / Postgres

Benefits

  • Meaningful ownership: Help decide what we build and take responsibility for how it works
  • Autonomy: Make decisions, propose improvements, and move work forward
  • A high bar for quality: Care about everything from API behavior to how a service recovers from failure
  • A collaborative, low-ego team: Give honest feedback, share knowledge, and help each other grow
  • Remote work: Work with a fully remote team, with flexibility around shared working hours
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Resend

Email for developers

Resend is the new email API for developers. It's designed for you to build, test, and send transactional emails at scale. If you're using Sendgrid, AWS SES, or Postmark, come talk to us.

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