Descripción del puesto
<p style="min-height:1.5em">Resend is growing fast, and there are now over 1 million developers using it. We, in the Core Sending team, are responsible for building and maintaining the core components of Resend that handle sending transactional and marketing emails.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This role is fully remote-based in UTC-5 to UTC0 time zones, with some expected travel for team off-sites, conferences, meetups, and more.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://resend.com/handbook"><strong>Read more about how we work, how we hire, and what we value here</strong></a>.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>In this role, you will…</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Help define the architecture</strong> to support millions of daily API requests</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Build and scale</strong> infrastructure to send dozens of millions of emails per day</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Improve high availability</strong> across distributed applications</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Scale databases</strong> like Postgres and Clickhouse to ensure that they are performant</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Enhance observability</strong> by using monitoring tools like Datadog</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Refine disaster recovery</strong> plans to ensure that recovery is quick and reliable</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Help to build our infrastructure</strong> with IaC frameworks like CDK and TF</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Work with</strong> Typescript and Golang</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Design and operate async pipelines</strong> (queues, streams, idempotency, retries, DLQs) that move tens of millions of messages per day</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Be on-call</strong> rotation (for critical services)</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>You will be a great fit if you...</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>8+ years of back-end engineering</strong> with a focus on cloud infrastructure</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Are fluent in <strong>writing and speaking English</strong></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Can consistently <strong>work in the Americas timezone</strong></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Thrive in open-ended problems and situations</strong></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have supported large workloads on <strong>AWS</strong></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You love helping</strong> other developers</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>“Default to action”</strong> kind of person</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Hands-on</strong> on solving problems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Experience with event-driven systems at scale</strong>. Kafka, SQS/SNS, or similar.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Low ego</strong></p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>You will be an exceptional fit if you also...</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have experience working on applications with a high workload</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Know about email best practices, or are <strong>willing to learn more about this space</strong></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Are experienced in <strong>Typescript</strong> and <strong>Golang</strong></p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What it means to join the team:</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Autonomy to "just ship it"</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">100% remote team with flexible working schedules</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Modern tech stack</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Honest and low-ego team</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ownership of problems and solutions</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comp: $150,000 - $170,000 USD, commensurate with experience</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Learn more about how we work:</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Autonomy to “just ship it”</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">100% remote team with flexible working schedules</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Honest and low-ego team</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ownership of problems and solutions</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>About Resend</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are building the modern email sending platform for developers. We care deeply about quality, craft, and the developer experience.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our fully remote team of 45 spans 12 countries and counting. We're backed by a16z, Y Combinator, and others. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://resend.com/humans">Meet the humans →</a></p>