Security Engineer, Platform

Resend is growing fast and there are now over 2 million developers using it. As the Platform Squad we are responsible for the internal platform and reliability foundations that let Resend teams build deploy observe and operate services safely.

This role is fully remote based in Americas or European timezones with some expected travel for team offsites 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 improve the security foundations of Resends platform including API keys service permissions secrets management tenant isolation audit logs and internal access controls

• Help design secure defaults for new services workers queues databases internal tools and deployment pipelines

• Improve detection and response for suspicious access leaked credentials abnormal sending behavior privilege changes and sensitive system events

• Review and update our processes/pipelines so that security is built-in not bolt-on

• Raise the security bar

You will be a great fit if you...

• Have experience securing production infrastructure cloud environments APIs developer platforms or multi-tenant SaaS products

• Can write code and are comfortable reading application infrastructure and deployment code

• Understand authentication authorization secrets IAM logging audit trails incident response and secure deployment pipelines.

• Independently prioritize and drive your day-to-day as the first dedicated security hire

• Prefer practical improvements over heavy processes

• Are low-ego direct curious and willing to learn from others

• Care about developer experience and believe security should be easy to adopt

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

• Have experience with email infrastructure transactional email sender reputation domain verification SPF DKIM DMARC webhooks or abuse prevention

• Have secured cloud infrastructure using tools like AWS Terraform Kubernetes Cloudflare or similar systems

• Have experience with open source security GitHub organization hardening package publishing dependency review or supply-chain security

• Have helped a company prepare for SOC 2 ISO 27001 GDPR enterprise security reviews or customer trust processes without turning engineering into a compliance machine

• Have built security observability alerting detection pipelines or incident response workflows

• Have worked closely with Trust & Safety anti-abuse fraud or platform integrity teams

• Have experience designing security systems for high-scale developer products

What it means to join the team:

• Autonomy to just ship it

• 100% remote team with flexible working schedules

• Modern tech stack ( Raycast Notion etc.)

• Honest and low-ego team

• Ownership of problems and solutions

• Comp: $120000 - $140000 USD commensurate with 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 45 spans 13 countries and counting. Were backed by a16z Y Combinator and others. Meet the humans

Required Experience:

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