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I know of two projects that are aimed at providing a wide range of different background job and scheduling features that I think would include this kind of use case. I haven't used either but I know the creators of each from their work on Redwood (Rob Cameron) and Blitz (Simon Knott) respectively.

Repeater

Described as being a Job Queue as a Service that is aimed at Background job processing for the Jamstack.

Common uses include:

  • Send emails & notifications
  • Check for heartbeat
  • Image processing
  • Data transformations
  • PDF generation

Quirrel

Described as job queueing for serverless.

Jobs include:

  • Delayed Jobs
  • Fanout Jobs
  • Recurring Jobs
  • Cron Jobs