Platform Engineer

About the Role

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 https://resend.com/handbook. 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 monitori

Key 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

Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.

Perks & Benefits

• Official mentor support
• verified hiring timeline
• and career progression.