Backend Engineer, Core Sending
Role Overview
This senior-level Backend Engineer role focuses on building and scaling the core infrastructure that handles transactional and marketing emails for millions of developers. You'll define architecture, scale databases like Postgres and Clickhouse, enhance observability with Datadog, and design async pipelines using queues and streams. The position is fully remote within UTC-5 to UTC0 time zones, with on-call rotation for critical services.
Perks & Benefits
100% remote team with flexible working schedules, autonomy to ship quickly, and ownership of problems. Compensation ranges from $150,000 to $170,000 USD. The team is low-ego and spans 12 countries, with occasional travel for off-sites and conferences.
Full Job Description
Resend is growing fast, and there are now over 1 million developers using it. We, in the Core Sending team, 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 UTC-5 to UTC0 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.
In this role, you will…
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)
You will be a great fit if you...
8+ years of back-end engineering with a focus on cloud infrastructure
Are fluent in writing and speaking English
Can consistently work in the Americas timezone
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
You will be an exceptional fit if you also...
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
What it means to join the team:
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
Learn more about how we work:
Autonomy to “just ship it”
100% remote team with flexible working schedules
Honest and low-ego team
Ownership of problems and solutions
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 45 spans 12 countries and counting. We're backed by a16z, Y Combinator, and others. Meet the humans →
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