Staff Engineer, Developer Tooling

Who Are We?

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 35 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500.

The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded.

P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an exceptional Staff Engineer to be the first engineering hire on our ecosystem developer tooling team.

You’ll be accountable for strategy, technical roadmap and architecture of the platform.

Your role involves designing, implementing, and running critical services and products for the ecosystem.

What You'll Do

• Technical Leadership
  • Provide technical leadership for the architecture and help the teams build highly secure, scalable, reliable and performant systems that can cater to the needs of tens of thousands of ecosystem developers and hundreds of millions of end users who depend on those apps.
  • Provide technical leadership to identify dependencies and review key designs to ensure consistency with architecture and support for the business
  • Lead the team to deliver on multiple projects in collaboration with key stakeholders
  • Build an operational center of excellence with effective observability, considerations for scale and performance and focus on quality
  • Be hands on and lead by example
• Prioritization and Roadmap
  • Partner with the Sr. EMs within the org and product leaders within the company
  • Help the teams prioritize work and create a balanced roadmap
• Collaboration
  • Work closely with senior leadership to drive org design, set and execute the roadmap and influence the strategy
  • Collaborate with cross functional teams to align on goals, drive engineering initiatives, and create broad organizational impact
• Mentorship
  • Be a mentor for senior engineers and help others grow
  • Build the next level of engineering leadership

About You

• Master’s degree in a Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• Strong experience with relevant industry standards in the ecosystem space (auth, scopes, etc.)
• 10+ years of experience hands on coding and familiarity with common programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS)
• 10+ years of engineering experience building end-end back end services
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects with a meaningful impact on the business
• Exceptional problem solving, design, and analytical skills
• Demonstrated experience designing highly scalable systems
• Sense of humor

The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $240,000 to 290,000, plus a competitive equity package.

What Else?

In addition to Postman's pay-on-performance philosophy, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team, Postman offers a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend.

At Postman, we embrace a hybrid work model.

Our Values

At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users.

Equal opportunity

Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.