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ResendResendUnited States

Backend Engineer, Core Sending

Builds and scales core email sending infrastructure handling millions of daily requests and emails. Designs high-availability systems, async pipelines, and databases with 8+ years backend experience focused on AWS cloud infrastructure.

120k – 140k/yr
Remote8+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Help define the architecture to support millions of daily API requests
  • Build and scale infrastructure to send dozens of millions of emails per day
  • Improve high availability across distributed applications
  • Scale databases like Postgres and Clickhouse to ensure that they are performant
  • Enhance observability by using monitoring tools like Datadog
  • Refine disaster recovery plans to ensure that recovery is quick and reliable
  • Help to build our infrastructure with IaC frameworks like CDK and TF
  • Work with Typescript and Golang
  • Design and operate async pipelines (queues, streams, idempotency, retries, DLQs) that move tens of millions of messages per day
  • Be on-call rotation (for critical services)

Requirements

  • 8+ years of back-end engineering with a focus on cloud infrastructure
  • Fluent in writing and speaking English
  • Can consistently work in the Americas timezone
  • Thrive in open-ended problems and situations
  • Have supported large workloads on AWS
  • Experience with event-driven systems at scale (Kafka, SQS/SNS, or similar)

Nice-to-haves

  • 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

Compensation

  • $120,000 - $140,000 USD, commensurate with experience

Skills

TypeScriptGoAWSPostgresClickHouseDatadogCdkTerraformKafkaSQS

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