Boulder-based SendGrid opening Silicon Valley office

BOULDER — Email delivery services provider SendGrid Inc. based in Boulder will open its fifth office in the United States, this one in Silicon Valley to accelerate the development and delivery of new product offerings.

The company also appointed Craig Kaes as vice president of engineering to existing and new teams of engineers across SendGrid’s offices.

SendGrid’s new office will be in Redwood City. The nearly 6,000-square-foot office will house about 40 employees. The company is recruiting software engineers and customer-success managers. The office is one block from the Caltrain station, has an open floor plan, natural light and will include hand-painted murals by artist and SendGrid’s office manager, Chelsea Hart.

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Kaes, a former senior engineer for Cisco, will be responsible for leading SendGrid’s 100-person engineering team to bring several in-flight email product offerings to market and developing new complementary solutions to offer customers. Craig will also take the lead on building out the engineering team in Redwood City, adding close to 30 engineering positions in that office.

SendGrid also has offices in Denver; Orange, Calif.; and London.