Remote Platform Security Engineer - Build Foundations

Resend; Ireland; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Resend is seeking a security-focused engineer to join our Platform Squad. The role is fully remote across Americas or European timezones, with occasional travel to team offsites and conferences.

You will build and strengthen security foundations for our platform, helping secure APIs, IAM, secrets, and audit logging while shaping secure defaults for services and deployment pipelines. You will drive security as the first dedicated hire and champion practical, developer-friendly safeguards.

Qualifications

• Experience securing production infrastructure, cloud environments, APIs, developer platforms, or multi-tenant SaaS products.
• Able to read and write code and understand deployment code.
• Knowledge of authentication, authorization, secrets, IAM, logging, audit trails, incident response, and secure deployment pipelines.
• Experience as the first dedicated security hire and ability to drive priorities.
• Prefers practical improvements over heavy processes.
• Low-ego, direct, curious, and eager to learn.
• Care about developer experience and secure adoption.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve 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

Skills

Security foundations

Cloud security

API security

IAM / authentication

Incident response

Developer experience focus

Security tooling

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Cloudflare

Job description

Resend is seeking a security-focused engineer to join our Platform Squad. The role is fully remote across Americas or European timezones, with occasional travel to team offsites and conferences.

You will build and strengthen security foundations for our platform, helping secure APIs, IAM, secrets, and audit logging while shaping secure defaults for services and deployment pipelines. You will drive security as the first dedicated hire and champion practical, developer-friendly safeguards.