Resend is growing fast, and there are now over 4 million developers using it. We’re building tools that make email better for developers. We care about dependable infrastructure, thoughtful design, and the experience of everyone building with our products.

The Platform Squad builds and maintains the infrastructure, tools, and systems that keep Resend running reliably, securely, and at scale, empowering our teams to build, deploy, and operate services with confidence.

This role is fully remote based in Americas or European timezones, with some expected travel for team offsites, conferences, meetups, and more.

Read more about how we work, how we hire, and what we value here.

In this role, you will…

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

You will be a great fit if you...

Bring 8+ years of experience across infrastructure engineering, platform, or SRE

Have 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

Have solid working knowledge of AWS

Have strong experience with observability and monitoring, using tools like Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry

Are 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

You will be an exceptional fit if you also...

Have operated high-throughput systems at scale

Have built internal platforms, developer tooling, or self-service infrastructure

Have worked on developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure

Have deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres

What it means to join the team...

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

Comp: $150,000 - $180,000 USD, commensurate with location and experience

About Resend

We are building the modern email sending platform for developers. We care deeply about quality, craft, and the developer experience.

Our fully remote team of 50 spans 15 countries and counting. We're backed by a16z, Y Combinator, and others. Meet the humans →