Resend
Backend Engineer (MTA), Core Sending
Americas / Remote / Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$170kDetected 53 days ago
TypeScriptGoDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLAWSDatadogIncident ResponseDesign SystemsDNSCommunication
About the role
- Resend is growing fast, and there are now over 3 million developers using it.
- This role is fully remote-based in Americas or European time zones, with some expected travel for team off-sites, conferences, meetups, and more.
- Read more about how we work, how we hire, and what we value here https://resend.com/handbook.
Skills
- Build and operate Resend's email transport infrastructure
- Work on SMTP delivery, MTA systems, routing, retries, backoff strategies, and delivery controls
- Improve how Resend classifies bounces, deferrals, transient failures, hard failures, and delivery outcomes
- Translate reputation strategy into backend systems
- Participate in incident response for sending, provider, and deliverability-sensitive issues
- Be on-call for critical services
- Have strong backend engineering experience
- Have worked on email, messaging, notifications, communications, infrastructure, or other high-volume delivery systems
- Understand queues, workers, retries, idempotency, rate limits, backpressure, and distributed systems
- Have experience or strong interest in SMTP, MTAs, DNS, bounces, deferrals, DNS, IP pools, and mailbox-provider behavior
- Care about reliability, observability, operational excellence, and reducing blast radius
- Have low ego, high ownership, and strong taste for simple systems
Compensation
- $150,000 - $170,000 USD, commensurate with experience
Company info
- Autonomy to "just ship it"
- 100% remote team with flexible working schedules
- Modern tech stack (Typescript, AWS, Go, Postgres, Datadog)
- Honest and low-ego team
- Ownership of problems and solutions
- We are building the modern email sending platform for developers.
- We care deeply about quality, craft, and the developer experience.
- Our fully remote team of 45 spans 13 countries and counting.
- We're backed by a16z, Y Combinator, and others.
- Meet the humans → https://resend.com/humans
This listing is sourced directly from Resend's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.