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Security Engineer, Platform

Resend· Engineering
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Remote$140k - $160kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Security-focused engineer responsible for building and strengthening Resend's platform security foundations, with autonomous ownership and emphasis on practical security improvements for a multi-tenant, developer-focused platform.

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve the security foundations of Resend’s platform, including API keys, service permissions, secrets management, tenant isolation, audit logs, and internal access controls
  • Help design secure defaults for new services, workers, queues, databases, internal tools, and deployment pipelines
  • Improve detection and response for suspicious access, leaked credentials, abnormal sending behavior, privilege changes, and sensitive system events
  • Review and update our processes/pipelines so that security is “built-in”, not “bolt-on”
  • Raise the security bar

Qualifications

  • Have experience securing production infrastructure, cloud environments, APIs, developer platforms, or multi-tenant SaaS products
  • Can write code and are comfortable reading application, infrastructure, and deployment code
  • Understand authentication, authorization, secrets, IAM, logging, audit trails, incident response, and secure deployment pipelines
  • Independently prioritize and drive your day-to-day as the first dedicated security hire
  • Prefer practical improvements over heavy processes
  • Are low-ego, direct, curious, and willing to learn from others
  • Care about developer experience and believe security should be easy to adopt

Skills

Required:Security foundations for platformSecure defaults design

Benefits

  • Autonomy to "just ship it"
  • 100% remote team with flexible working schedules
  • Modern tech stack (Next.js, Raycast, Notion, etc.)
  • Honest and low-ego team
  • Ownership of problems and solutions
  • Comp: $140,000 - $160,000 USD, commensurate with location and experience
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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