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ResendResendUnited States

Backend Engineer , Core Sending

As a Backend Engineer on the Core Sending Squad, you will build and operate Resend’s email transport infrastructure, focusing on SMTP delivery, MTA systems, and routing. You will design systems for throttling, IP pools, and reputation-aware routing, and improve bounce classification.

150k – 170k/yr
RemoteBackend Engineering

About the role

In this role, you will…

  • Build and operate Resend’s email transport infrastructure
  • Work on SMTP delivery, MTA systems, routing, retries, backoff strategies, and delivery controls
  • Design systems for domain-level, provider-level, customer-level, and IP-level throttling
  • Build infrastructure for shared IP pools, dedicated IPs, warmup execution, and reputation-aware routing
  • Improve how Resend classifies bounces, deferrals, transient failures, hard failures, and delivery outcomes
  • Build tools that help the team debug delivery issues by customer, domain, mailbox provider, route, IP, message type, and event
  • Help design systems that make sending behavior safer, more observable, and easier to operate
  • Translate reputation strategy into backend systems
  • Partner with Trust & Safety to build controls that protect Resend’s sending network from abuse
  • Participate in incident response for sending, provider, and deliverability-sensitive issues
  • Be on-call for critical services

You will be a great fit if you...

  • 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

You will be an exceptional fit if you also...

  • Have experience working on applications with a high workload
  • Know about email best practices, or are willing to learn more about this space
  • Are experienced in Typescript and Golang

What it means to join the team:

  • 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

Comp:

  • $150,000 - $170,000 USD, commensurate with experience

Skills

SmtpMtaDNSTypeScriptGoAWSPostgresDatadogDistributed SystemsQueues

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