Platform Engineer
Resend · Remote · Americas ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote (Americas/EU)
- 8+ years experience
- AWS + Terraform/CDK
- Competitive USD salary
- Travel for offsites
Join the Platform Squad at Resend to design and operate the systems that keep the email API reliable and secure. You will automate operational tasks and create self-service workflows that empower engineering teams to deploy services confidently.
What you'll do
- Build and improve platform infrastructure to enable fast and safe engineering workflows
- Design scalable cloud systems on AWS with a focus on reliability and security
- Automate operations and create self-service tools for common infrastructure tasks
- Establish standards for building, deploying, and operating services consistently
- Enhance observability and participate in incident response to drive improvements
- Collaborate with engineers to solve platform problems and build reusable solutions
What you'll need
- 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform, or SRE roles
- Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi
- Solid working knowledge of AWS and distributed systems concepts
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
- Ability to work across the stack from networking to delivery pipelines
- Clear communication skills in English and ability to overlap with Americas hours
Nice to have
- Experience operating high-throughput systems at scale
- Background in building internal platforms or developer tooling
- Work history with developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure
- Deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres
Stack
- AWS
- Terraform
- AWS CDK
- Pulumi
- Datadog
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- Go
- Postgres
How you'll work
- Fully remote position based in Americas or European time zones
- Must consistently overlap with Americas working hours
- Some travel required for team offsites, conferences, and meetups
What you get
- Meaningful ownership over platform decisions and implementation
- Autonomy to propose improvements and move work forward independently
- Collaborative low-ego team culture with honest feedback
- Flexibility around shared working hours within time zone constraints