About the role

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.

In this role, you will...

Build and operate Resend's email transport infrastructure
Work on SMTP delivery, MTA systems, routing, retries, backoff strategies, and delivery controls
Design systems for domain-level, provider-level, customer-level, and IP-level throttling
Build infrastructure for shared IP pools, dedicated IPs, warmup execution, and reputation-aware routing
Improve how Resend classifies bounces, deferrals, transient failures, hard failures, and delivery outcomes
Help design systems that make sending behavior safer, more observable, and easier to operate
Be on-call for critical services

You will be a great fit if you...

Have strong backend engineering experience
Have worked on email, messaging, notifications, communications, infrastructure, or other high-volume delivery systems
Understand queues, workers, retries, idempotency, rate limits, backpressure, and distributed systems
Have experience or strong interest in SMTP, MTAs, DNS, bounces, deferrals, IP pools, and mailbox-provider behavior

What it means to join the team:

100% remote team with flexible working schedules
Modern tech stack (Typescript, AWS, Go, Postgres, Datadog)
Comp: $150,000 - $170,000 USD, commensurate with experience

Skills

Backend TypeScript Go AWS DNS Distributed Systems

How to apply

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