Platform Engineer
Resend · Engineering · Senior · 1mo ago
$150k – $180k
per year
Open to candidates across Americas, Europe.
Direct from the employer's own careers page
Who can apply
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Open to candidates across Americas, Europe.
“This role is fully remote based in Americas or European timezones, with some expected travel for team offsites, conferences, meetups, and more.”
The 50-person team spans 15 countries, with required working hours overlap with the Americas.
- Async-first
- The listing doesn't promise async-first working.
- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- Travel is expected for team offsites, conferences, and meetups.
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About the role
As a Platform Engineer on the Platform Squad, you will design, operate, and scale cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS while building self-service tools and workflows that empower engineers across Resend. You will take ownership of reliability, performance, security, and observability across systems, participating in incident response and automating operational work to keep services running smoothly.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain the core platform infrastructure and developer tooling enabling engineers to deploy safely and quickly
- Design and operate scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS
- Automate operational work and create self-service workflows for common engineering tasks
- Establish platform patterns, architecture standards, and delivery pipelines across services
- Improve observability and monitoring across systems and participate in incident response
- Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to solve infrastructure challenges
What you bring
- 8+ years of experience across infrastructure engineering, platform, or SRE
- Strong experience managing production infrastructure as code using AWS CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi
- Deep understanding of distributed cloud systems, queues, databases, networking, and load balancing on AWS
- Extensive experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
- Strong written and spoken English with the ability to consistently overlap with Americas working hours
About Resend
Resend is an email sending platform built for developers, currently serving over 4 million users. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z, the fully remote team of 50 spans 15 countries.
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