Remote Backend Jobs

As the Core Sending Squad, we are responsible for building and maintaining the core components of Resend that handle sending transactional and marketing emails.

Responsibilities

• 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)

Requirements

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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