Backend Engineer (MTA), Trust & Safety
remotemid$150K – $170K
via Ashby
About this role
Resend is building the most accessible email platform for developers. As we’ve grown to 4M+ users and continue to onboard thousands of new users every day, the pressure of maintaining a safe place for good senders continues to build.
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.
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…
What we'd score you on
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Skills match
For this role: typescript, go, postgres, aws, datadog…
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Level fit
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Domain experience
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Recency
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Location fit
This role is remote-eligible — we factor in your stated location and time-zone overlap.
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Skills in this role
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typescriptgopostgresawsdatadogresend