Deliverability Engineer, Core Sending
At a glance
Highlights
- Remote-first, Americas time zones
- Flexible working schedules
- Modern tech stack
- Autonomy to ship
- Backed by a16z and Y Combinator
Heads up
- Travel required for off-sites and conferences
Why this role might suit you
A mid‑level engineer with deep email deliverability expertise will thrive building core sending infrastructure at a fast‑growing, fully remote startup backed by top investors.
Skills
About the role
Resend is growing fast, and there are now over 2 million developers using it. As the Core Sending Squad, we are responsible for building and maintaining the core components of Resend that handle sending transactional and marketing emails.
This role is fully remote-based in Americas time zones, with some expected travel for team off-sites, conferences, meetups, and more. about how we work, how we hire, and what we value here https://resend.com/handbook.
YOU WILL BE A GREAT FIT IF YOU...
- Have experience in email deliverability, reputation, mail operations, anti-abuse, or high-volume email systems
- Understand IP reputation, domain reputation, authentication, bounces, complaints, suppressions, and warmup
- Know how major mailbox providers behave and how to diagnose provider-specific delivery issues
- Can turn ambiguous deliverability judgment into metrics, policies, runbooks, dashboards, and systems
- Communicate clearly with engineering, support, product, customers
- Have low ego, strong judgment, and high ownership
YOU WILL BE AN EXCEPTIONAL FIT IF YOU ALSO...
- Have operated shared and dedicated IP pools
- Have designed or managed IP warmup programs
- Have recovered from provider blocks, spam-foldering issues, complaint spikes, deferral spikes, or blocklist events
- Have experience with Google Postmaster Tools, Microsoft SNDS/JMRP, Yahoo Sender Hub, feedback loops, or blocklist monitoring
- Understand DKIM, SPF, DMARC, PTR, TLS, DSNs, List-Unsubscribe, suppression, and bounce classification
- Understand IP reputation, domain reputation, authentication, bounces, complaints, suppressions, and warmup
- Have partnered with Trust & Safety, anti-abuse, support, or customer-facing teams
- Have helped build deliverability dashboards, reputation scoring, traffic segmentation, or automated enforcement systems
- Have experience helping engineering teams turn deliverability knowledge into product and infrastructure
WHAT IT MEANS TO JOIN THE TEAM:
- Autonomy to "just ship it"
- 100% remote team with flexible working schedules
- Modern tech stack (AWS, Next.js, Raycast, Notion, etc.)
- Honest and low-ego team
- Ownership of problems and solutions
- Comp: $150,000 - $180,000 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. We're backed by a16z, Y Combinator, and others. Meet the humans → https://resend.com/humans
Compensation
This Marketing role pays $150k-$180k/yr. Within typical range for marketing roles in United States.
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