Platform Engineer

Resend

5d•$150,000 - $180,000•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Operated high-throughput systems at scale
Built internal platforms, developer tooling, or self-service infrastructure
Worked on developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure
Deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres

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