Platform Engineer

Europe, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

The Platform Squad builds and maintains the infrastructure, tools, and systems that keep Resend running reliably, securely, and at scale. You will build and improve the platform, design scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS, and automate operational work.

What you will do

Build and improve the platform that powers Resend
Design and operate scalable cloud infrastructure, primarily on AWS
Automate operational work and build self-service workflows
Establish platform standards and patterns
Improve reliability and observability across Resend
Participate in incident response
Partner with engineers across Resend to solve infrastructure and platform problems

Required qualifications

8+ years of experience across infrastructure engineering, platform, or SRE
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
Solid working knowledge of AWS
Strong experience with observability and monitoring, using tools like Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
Comfortable working across the stack, from load balancers and networking to delivery pipelines
Take ownership, communicate trade-offs clearly, and are comfortable working independently
Communicate clearly in written and spoken English
Can consistently overlap with Americas working hours

Nice to have

Operated high-throughput systems at scale
Built internal platforms, developer tooling, or self-service infrastructure
Worked on developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure
Deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres

Benefits

Meaningful ownership
Autonomy
A high bar for quality
A collaborative, low-ego team
Remote work

About the company

Resend is building the modern email sending platform for developers. Their fully remote team of 50 spans 15 countries and is backed by a16z, Y Combinator, and others.