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title: 'Platform Engineer at Resend'
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# Platform Engineer at Resend

- **Company:** Resend
- **Location:** Americas
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/resend/a9fc1d02-cace-4be9-8d3d-16f4fb137b39

## Job description

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 monitoring, using tools like Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
- Are 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

You will be an exceptional fit if you also...

- Have operated high-throughput systems at scale
- Have built internal platforms, developer tooling, or self-service infrastructure
- Have worked on developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure
- Have deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres

What it means to join the team...

- Meaningful ownership: Help decide what we build and take responsibility for how it works
- Autonomy: Make decisions, propose improvements, and move work forward
- A high bar for quality: Care about everything from API behavior to how a service recovers from failure
- A collaborative, low-ego team: Give honest feedback, share knowledge, and help each other grow
- Remote work: Work with a fully remote team, with flexibility around shared working hours
- Comp: $150,000 - $180,000 USD, commensurate with location and experience

## 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 50 spans 15 countries and counting. We're backed by a16z, Y Combinator, and others. [Meet the humans →](https://resend.com/humans)

## About Resend

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Resend provides a modern email API for developers to build, test, and send transactional and marketing emails at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Zeno Rocha (CEO), Bu Kinoshita (CTO), Jonni Lundy

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Developer tools / Email infrastructure (Communication API)
- Target customers: B2B, primarily developers and engineering teams at startups, SMBs, and enterprises
- Mission statement: Reimagine email for the modern web — building the best communication platform for developers

## Products & Services
- **Email API**: A RESTful API for sending transactional and marketing emails at scale, with SDKs for Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Java, Laravel, Rust, and .NET.
- **React Email (open source)**: A library (5.1k+ GitHub stars) that lets developers code email templates using React components instead of outdated HTML layouts.
- **Resend CLI**: Command-line tool for sending emails directly from the terminal.
- **Deliverability Engine**: Infrastructure focused on inbox placement and avoiding spam folders, backed by SOC 2 compliance and GDPR adherence.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Total Funding**: $18M Series A (announced December 4, 2024)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — $18M Series A
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2023 batch), with backing from "incredible investors" including Diana Hu (YC primary partner)
- **Growth Signals**: Launched in 2023, grew to 45 team members as of mid-2025; Y Combinator backing; open source community traction (React Email); challenger brand in a market dominated by SendGrid, AWS SES, and Postmark

## Competitive Advantages
- **Developer-first experience**: React-based email components, modern API design, and extensive SDK support set them apart from legacy providers.
- **Open source community**: React Email has strong adoption (5.1k+ stars) and creates a natural pipeline to the paid API.
- **Deliverability focus**: Deep investment in inbox placement technology, a known pain point for developers.
- **Challenger mindset**: Actively rethinking email infrastructure from scratch, not just copying incumbents.

## Strategic Focus
- **Default to action**: Company culture emphasizes shipping fast, iterating quickly, and taking initiative without permission.
- **Remote-first**: Fully remote company with async communication, two annual offsites, and timezone overlap within the Americas.
- **Quality obsession**: Focus on craft, attention to detail, and delighting developers — challenging the "good enough" status quo in email.
- **Growth stage**: Post-Series A, actively hiring across engineering (Backend, Security, Product, Deliverability) to scale the platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Fully remote with async communication, no plans for mandatory offices. Two annual in-person retreats.
- **Engineering philosophy**: "Default to action" — makers ship PRs, not wait for permission. Emphasis on speed, iteration, and quality.
- **Benefits (Global)**: 20 PTO days/year, 12-week family leave, unlimited sick days, 10 holidays/year (choose US or local), $2,000 home office allowance, annual retreat.
- **Benefits (US-only)**: 100% employee / 90% family health/dental/vision coverage, 401K account (no matching), life insurance.
- **Team size**: ~45 people (as of mid-2025) — early-stage energy with significant traction.
- **Culture values**: No ego, confident curiosity, challenge the status quo, use resources available — documented in a public handbook.

## Sources
1. [resend.com](https://resend.com/)
2. [resend.com/about](https://resend.com/about)
3. [resend.com/careers](https://resend.com/careers)
4. [resend.com/handbook/people/how-we-work](https://www.resend.com/handbook/people/how-we-work)
5. [ycombinator.com/companies/resend](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/resend)

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