Resend
Engineering
BackendEngineer(Infra)
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“Backend Engineer (Infra) at Resend. Skills: Backend engineering, Cloud infrastructure, Typescript, Golang. Define architecture. Build and scale infrastructure”
What You'll Achieve.
support millions of daily API requests; send dozens of millions of emails per day; ensure databases are performant; ensure recovery is quick and reliable; move tens of millions of messages per day
Industry & Context.
open-ended problems
expected travel, on-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years of back-end engineering with a focus on cloud infrastructure, fluent in writing and speaking English, Can consistently work in the Americas timezone, Thrive in open-ended problems and situations, supported large workloads on AWS, Experience with event-driven systems at scale, Kafka, SQS/SNS, or similar
Nice to Have
experience working on applications with a high workload, Know about email best practices, or are willing to learn more about this space, experienced in Typescript and Golang
What You'll Do.
Build and scale infrastructure
Improve high availability
Enhance observability
Refine disaster recovery plans
Build infrastructure with IaC
Work with Typescript and Golang
Design and operate async pipelines
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Help other developers
Communication Scope
writing and speaking English
Full Job Description
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. Read more about how we work, how we hire, and what we value here https://resend.com/handbook. 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% re
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