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<p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This role is fully remote-based in Americas time zones, with some expected travel for team off-sites, 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>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 in email deliverability, reputation, mail operations, anti-abuse, or high-volume email systems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Understand IP reputation, domain reputation, authentication, bounces, complaints, suppressions, and warmup</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Know how major mailbox providers behave and how to diagnose provider-specific delivery issues</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Can turn ambiguous deliverability judgment into metrics, policies, runbooks, dashboards, and systems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Communicate clearly with engineering, support, product, customers</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have low ego, strong judgment, and high ownership</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 operated shared and dedicated IP pools</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have designed or managed IP warmup programs</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have recovered from provider blocks, spam-foldering issues, complaint spikes, deferral spikes, or blocklist events</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have experience with Google Postmaster Tools, Microsoft SNDS/JMRP, Yahoo Sender Hub, feedback loops, or blocklist monitoring</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Understand DKIM, SPF, DMARC, PTR, TLS, DSNs, List-Unsubscribe, suppression, and bounce classification</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Understand IP reputation, domain reputation, authentication, bounces, complaints, suppressions, and warmup</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have partnered with Trust & Safety, anti-abuse, support, or customer-facing teams</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have helped build deliverability dashboards, reputation scoring, traffic segmentation, or automated enforcement systems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have experience helping engineering teams turn deliverability knowledge into product and infrastructure</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 (AWS, 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: $150,000 - $180,000 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>

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