Platform Engineer

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Platform Engineer building scalable AWS infrastructure, automation, and observability for Resend’s modern email platform. Improving reliability and developer tooling for teams worldwide.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and improve the platform that powers Resend, providing reliable infrastructure and tooling
  • 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 tools like Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
  • Comfortable working across the stack, from load balancers and networking to delivery pipelines
  • Ability to take ownership, communicate trade-offs clearly, and work independently while knowing when to ask for help
  • Clear written and spoken English
  • Ability to consistently overlap with Americas working hours

Benefits:

  • Fully remote work
  • Flexibility around shared working hours
  • Meaningful ownership
  • Autonomy
  • Collaborative, low-ego team
  • Opportunities to give feedback, share knowledge, and grow
  • Expected travel for team offsites, conferences, meetups, and more