Security Engineer, Platform

<p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This role is fully remote based in Americas or European timezones, with some expected travel for team offsites, conferences, meetups, and more.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://resend.com/handbook"><strong>Read more about how we work, how we hire, and what we value here</strong></a>.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>In this role, you will…</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and improve the security foundations of Resend’s platform, including API keys, service permissions, secrets management, tenant isolation, audit logs, and internal access controls</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Help design secure defaults for new services, workers, queues, databases, internal tools, and deployment pipelines</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Improve detection and response for suspicious access, leaked credentials, abnormal sending behavior, privilege changes, and sensitive system events</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Review and update our processes/pipelines so that security is “built-in”, not “bolt-on”</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Raise the security bar</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>You will be a great fit if you...</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have experience securing production infrastructure, cloud environments, APIs, developer platforms, or multi-tenant SaaS products</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Can write code and are comfortable reading application, infrastructure, and deployment code</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Understand authentication, authorization, secrets, IAM, logging, audit trails, incident response, and secure deployment pipelines.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Independently prioritize and drive your day-to-day as the first dedicated security hire</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Prefer practical improvements over heavy processes</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Are low-ego, direct, curious, and willing to learn from others</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Care about developer experience and believe security should be easy to adopt</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>You will be an exceptional fit if you also...</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have experience with email infrastructure, transactional email, sender reputation, domain verification, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, webhooks, or abuse prevention</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have secured cloud infrastructure using tools like AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, or similar systems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have experience with open source security, GitHub organization hardening, package publishing, dependency review, or supply-chain security</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">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</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have built security observability, alerting, detection pipelines, or incident response workflows</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have worked closely with Trust & Safety, anti-abuse, fraud, or platform integrity teams</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have experience designing security systems for high-scale developer products</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What it means to join the team:</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Autonomy to "just ship it"</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">100% remote team with flexible working schedules</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Modern tech stack (Next.js, Raycast, Notion, etc.)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Honest and low-ego team</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ownership of problems and solutions</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comp: $120,000 - $140,000 USD, commensurate with experience</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>About Resend</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are building the modern email sending platform for developers. We care deeply about quality, craft, and the developer experience.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our fully remote team of 45 spans 13 countries and counting. We're backed by a16z, Y Combinator, and others. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://resend.com/humans">Meet the humans →</a></p>