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Resend · 3 months ago

Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level
date5+ years exp

Resend is building the most accessible email platform for developers, focusing on maintaining a safe environment for good senders. The Software Engineer in Trust & Safety will build interfaces, services, tooling, and enforcement pipelines to ensure safety and compliance within the platform.

Developer APIsDeveloper ToolsEmailInformation Technology

Responsibilities

Build and maintain internal services for enforcement, throttling, and policy rules
Design automation pipelines that move from detection → decision → action
Connect with core infrastructure: databases, queues, caching layers, and observability stacks
Implement safeguards: fail-safes, fallback paths, and guardrails to prevent over-blocking
Collaborate with teams to turn raw signals into actionable workflows
Ensure all enforcement actions are traceable with logs, metrics, and audit trails

Qualification

Node.jsTypeScriptReactDatabasesAWSAPIsEvent-driven architecturesEnglish fluencyObservabilitySoft skills

Required

5+ years of software engineering experience
Fluent in writing and speaking English
Deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, React (Express, Hono, Next.js)
Proven experience with databases and performance tuning (Postgres, Clickhouse)
Infrastructure and reliability skills (Datadog, AWS, CDK)
Understand how to design systems with safety and fail-safe operations in mind
Comfortable with APIs, event-driven architectures, and stateful services
Care deeply about observability: metrics, logs, tracing, error handling
Take ownership across the stack — from frontend surfaces down to databases and queues
Have worked in trust, safety, fraud, or security domains
Have exposure to real-time enforcement systems, such as rate-limiting

Company

Resend

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Resend is an email API for developers.
dateFounded in 2023
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://resend.com

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$21.5M
Key Investors
Andreessen HorowitzY Combinator
2024-12-04Series A· $18M
2023-07-18Seed· $3M
2023-04-05Pre Seed· $0.5M

Leadership Team

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Zeno Rocha
Founder & CEO
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