Resend
Backend Engineer (Infra), Core Sending
1mo ago
WorldwideSeniorRemoteC1postgresclickhousedatadogtypescriptgolangawscdkterraform
Responsible for building and scaling core infrastructure for handling millions of API requests and transactional emails.
Responsibilities
- Help define the architecture to support millions of daily API requests
- Build and scale infrastructure to send dozens of millions of emails per day
- Improve high availability across distributed applications
- Scale databases like Postgres and Clickhouse to ensure that they are performant
- Enhance observability by using monitoring tools like Datadog
- Refine disaster recovery plans to ensure that recovery is quick and reliable
- Help to build our infrastructure with IaC frameworks like CDK and TF
- Work with Typescript and Golang
- Design and operate async pipelines (queues, streams, idempotency, retries, DLQs) that move tens of millions of messages per day
- Be on-call rotation (for critical services)
Other
- Resend is growing fast, and there are now over 2 million developers using it. As the Core Sending Squad, we are responsible for building and maintaining the core components of Resend that handle sending transactional and marketing emails.
- This role is fully remote-based in Americas or European time zones, with some expected travel for team off-sites, conferences, meetups, and more.
- Read more about how we work, how we hire, and what we value here .
- 8+ years of back-end engineering with a focus on cloud infrastructure
- Are fluent in writing and speaking English
- Thrive in open-ended problems and situations
- Have supported large workloads on AWS
- You love helping other developers
- “Default to action” kind of person
- Hands-on on solving problems
- Experience with event-driven systems at scale . Kafka, SQS/SNS, or similar.
- Low ego
- Have experience working on applications with a high workload
- Know about email best practices, or are willing to learn more about this space
- Are experienced in Typescript and Golang
- Autonomy to "just ship it"
- 100% remote team with flexible working schedules
- Modern tech stack
- Honest and low-ego team
- Ownership of problems and solutions
- Comp: $150,000 - $170,000 USD, commensurate with experience
- 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 45 spans 13 countries and counting. We're backed by a16z, Y Combinator, and others. Meet the humans →