Platform Engineer

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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

Requirements:

  • 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

Benefits:

  • Fully remote work with flexibility around shared working hours
  • Meaningful ownership and decision-making responsibility
  • Autonomy to propose improvements and move work forward
  • Collaborative, low-ego team environment
  • Team offsites, conferences, and meetups