Backend Engineer (MTA), Trust & Safety
Resend · Americas · posted May 29, 2026
$150k–$170kmidB2B SaaS
What this role actually asks for
Extracted by RemoteHuntMust have
- •Strong backend engineering experience
- •Experience with high-volume delivery systems
- •Understanding of queues, workers, retries, idempotency
- •Experience or strong interest in SMTP, MTAs, DNS
- •Care about reliability and observability
- •Low ego, high ownership
Nice to have
- •Experience working on high workload applications
- •Knowledge of email best practices
- •Experience in Typescript and Golang
Tools and technologies
TypescriptAWSGoPostgresDatadog
The full posting
About the 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 .
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
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