Security Engineer, Platform

Resend

Security Engineer improving platform security foundations for Resend’s email services with a remote work setup. Experience required in cloud security, infrastructure, and incident response.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $120,000 - $140,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudKubernetesOpen SourceTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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
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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
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

Benefits

Comp & perks

100% remote team with flexible working schedules
Modern tech stack (Next.js, Raycast, Notion, etc.)
Honest and low-ego team
Ownership of problems and solutions

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Hard Skills & Tools

securing production infrastructurecloud environmentsAPIsdeveloper platformsmulti-tenant SaaS productsauthenticationauthorizationincident responsesecure deployment pipelinessecurity observability

Soft Skills

independently prioritizedrive day-to-daylow-egodirectcuriouswilling to learncare about developer experiencepractical improvements

Certifications

SOC 2ISO 27001GDPR