Senior Systems Engineer - Email Deliverability & Infrastructure
We are seeking a highly technical, impact-driven Senior Systems Engineer to own, scale, and protect our core email transmission infrastructure. In this role, your golden rule will be Reputation Above All . You are not just managing email lists or monitoring dashboards; you will architect and maintain the high-availability server infrastructure, Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs), and automated defensive systems that ensure our legitimate traffic hits the inbox while bad actors are ruthlessly contained.
The ideal candidate bridges the gap between deep Linux systems administration, network engineering, and advanced email deliverability strategy. You will have a massive impact on the company by safeguarding our general IP/domain reputation, minimizing blast radiuses, and ensuring zero-downtime mail operations across our entire infrastructure network.
- Location: Fully Remote (Global)
- Compensation: $24k to $36k USD Yearly
- Position Type: Full-Time Contract

Core Responsibilities
- MTA Optimization:



Maintain and configure core MTAs (Postfix , Postal ) and IMAP/POP3 servers (Dovecot ), ensuring graceful reloads over restarts to prevent dropping active connections.
- Traffic Routing & Load Balancing: Utilize HAProxy and network routing protocols (like BGP via FRRouting ) to distribute outbound traffic and architect high-volume failover mechanisms.
- Redundancy & Failover: Administer backend infrastructure databases (PostgreSQL replica setups) and maintain dedicated "Block" backup/archive servers to instantly take over the workload of a failed primary "Cube" server.
- Architectural Segregation: Maintain strict workload isolation across our infrastructure network—separating standard nodes for mail stacks, specialized injection nodes (Postal), and separate archiving/backup systems to prevent high-volume senders from degrading performance.
- Protocol Enforcement: Act as the absolute technical authority on DNS and authe

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