Platform Engineer

Resend is hiring a Platform Engineer for a remote role open to applicants in United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Resend.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
The posting lists this role as remote.
Tools and skills the posting cites include AWS, Terraform and Pulumi.
Level lists 13 other open roles at Resend.
The role was posted within the past two weeks.

AI in this role

Build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure and developer platforms to support Resend's email services.

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Resend is growing fast, and there are now over 4 million developers using it. We’re building tools that make email better for developers. We care about dependable infrastructure, thoughtful design, and the experience of everyone building with our products.

The Platform Squad builds and maintains the infrastructure, tools, and systems that keep Resend running reliably, securely, and at scale, empowering our teams to build, deploy, and operate services with confidence.

This role is fully remote based in Americas or European timezones, with some expected travel for team offsites, conferences, meetups, and more.

In this role, you will…

Build and improve the platform that powers Resend, providing reliable infrastructure and tooling that enables engineers to move quickly and safely
Design and operate scalable cloud infrastructure, primarily on AWS, with a focus on reliability, performance and security
Automate operational work and build self-service workflows that make common infrastructure and engineering tasks easier
Establish platform standards and patterns that help teams build, deploy, and operate services consistently
Improve reliability and observability across Resend, including participating in incident response and turning operational issues into lasting improvements
Partner with engineers across Resend to solve infrastructure and platform problems and build reusable solutions

You will be a great fit if you...

Bring 8+ years of experience across infrastructure engineering, platform, or SRE
Have strong experience managing production infrastructure as code, using tools like AWS CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi
Understand distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, including queues, workers, databases, caching, networking, and load balancing
Have solid working knowledge of AWS
Have strong experience with observability and monitoring, using tools like Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
Are comfortable working across the stack, from load balancers and networking to delivery pipelines
Take ownership, communicate trade-offs clearly, and are comfortable working independently while knowing when to ask for help
Communicate clearly in written and spoken English and can consistently overlap with Americas working hours

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

Have operated high-throughput systems at scale
Have built internal platforms, developer tooling, or self-service infrastructure
Have worked on developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure
Have deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres

What it means to join the team...

Meaningful ownership: Help decide what we build and take responsibility for how it works
Autonomy: Make decisions, propose improvements, and move work forward
A high bar for quality: Care about everything from API behavior to how a service recovers from failure
A collaborative, low-ego team: Give honest feedback, share knowledge, and help each other grow
Remote work: Work with a fully remote team, with flexibility around shared working hours
Comp: $150,000 - $180,000 USD, commensurate with location and experience

About Resend

We are building the modern email sending platform for developers. We care deeply about quality, craft, and the developer experience.

Our fully remote team of 50 spans 15 countries and counting. We're backed by a16z, Y Combinator, and others. Meet the humans →

How we rate this

Platform Engineer at Resend rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Platform Engineer is an open job at Resend.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in Americas and is marked remote.
The job was posted on October 9, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Resend. Apply on Resend

Prepare for this job

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

AWSTerraformPulumiAWS CdkDatadogGrafanaOpentelemetry

Questions you could be asked

What's a project where you used AWS hands-on?
Walk me through how you've used Terraform in your day-to-day work.
What are the limits of Pulumi that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
What's a project where you used AWS Cdk hands-on?
Walk me through how you've used Datadog in your day-to-day work.

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List these exact terms on your resume: AWS, Terraform, Pulumi, AWS Cdk, and Datadog. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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