About the role

Platform Engineer building reliable, secure AWS infrastructure for Resend’s developer email platform. Improving observability, automation, and self-service tooling for engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Build and improve the platform that powers Resend, providing reliable infrastructure and tooling for engineers
Design and operate scalable cloud infrastructure, primarily on AWS, focusing on reliability, performance, and security
Automate operational work and build self-service workflows
Establish platform standards and patterns for consistent service development, deployment, and operation
Improve reliability and observability across Resend
Participate in incident response and turn operational issues into lasting improvements
Partner with engineers across Resend to solve infrastructure and platform problems and build reusable solutions

8+ years of experience across infrastructure engineering, platform, or SRE
Strong experience managing production infrastructure as code using AWS CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi
Understanding of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, including queues, workers, databases, caching, networking, and load balancing
Solid working knowledge of AWS
Strong experience with observability and monitoring using Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
Comfortable working across the stack, from load balancers and networking to delivery pipelines
Ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate trade-offs clearly, and know when to ask for help
Clear written and spoken English
Ability to consistently overlap with Americas working hours
Experience operating high-throughput systems at scale
Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, or self-service infrastructure
Experience with developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure
Deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres