Software Engineer, Trust & Safety
Resend · Remote · Europe ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote (Americas/EU)
- Node.js, TypeScript, Go
- Trust & Safety focus
- 5+ years experience
- USD 150k-175k
You will develop the infrastructure that protects Resend's email platform from bad actors while ensuring reliability for legitimate users. This includes building real-time enforcement mechanisms, scalable detection pipelines, and automated response systems that operate within strict latency budgets.
What you'll do
- Build real-time enforcement layers with millisecond latency constraints
- Design pipelines for signal processing, decision making, and action execution
- Create safe and modifiable detection rules and policies
- Detect account takeovers and leaked API keys without locking out owners
- Implement feedback loops to measure detection precision and reduce false positives
- Automate manual investigations, appeals, and bulk actions
- Develop and evaluate ML classifiers for spam and phishing detection
- Ensure all actions are traceable via logs, metrics, and audit trails
What you'll need
- Five or more years of software engineering experience
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Deep expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, and React frameworks
- Willingness to write Go for latency-sensitive services
- Experience with AWS, CDK, and Datadog for infrastructure reliability
- Proficiency with APIs, event-driven architectures, and queues
- Strong focus on observability, including metrics and tracing
- Proven experience with Postgres and Redis databases
Nice to have
- Background in trust and safety, fraud, or security domains
- Experience building real-time enforcement or rules engines
- Production experience with ML or LLM-based detection systems
- Knowledge of email protocols like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
- Expertise in database performance tuning for Postgres and Redis
Stack
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- React
- Hono
- Next.js
- Go
- AWS
- CDK
- Datadog
- Postgres
- Redis
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Based in Americas or European time zones
- Travel required for offsites and conferences
What you get
- Competitive compensation package
- Opportunity to shape technical decisions
- Collaborative global team environment
- Focus on product quality and reliability