Senior Backend Engineer, Postman Insights

Postman•San Francisco, CA

8d•$210,000 - $240,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity With Postman Insights , our vision is to help all developers more quickly find and fix production issues. Our vision is to provide productive dashboards within 15 minutes of a developer signing up for an account. With our first product, we aim to provide the fastest, easiest way to find and fix failing APIs. As we prepare for GA, we are looking for a high-ownership, product-oriented infrastructure engineer to help us scale our product to bigger users. Postman Insights works by watching API traffic at the network level, in real-time. You’ll get to work on exciting scaling problems, balancing long-term infrastructure goals with short-to-medium term product needs. Watch our launch demo from POST/CON. About you You’re an engineer who thrives on diving into the unknown, collaborating with others, and tackling challenging, complex problems with a can-do attitude. You have a passion for delivering seamless and delightful experiences to users, no matter how intricate the technical hurdles may be. As one of the first dedicated engineers in the platform area for Postman Insights, you’ll play a critical role in shaping the foundation of this team. Your work will not only directly impact the success of our platform but also set the stage for expanding the team and scaling our capabilities in this space.

Requirements

7+ years of experience shipping production-grade software.
Experience scaling large-scale software systems.
Proven ability to work independently, with at least two significant projects where you were either the primary contributor delivering substantial portions of the work and/or led a team of engineers to successfully execute the project.
Strong communication skills, with a track record of aligning cross-functional stakeholders and unblocking challenges to meet business objectives.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nice To Haves

Experience working on an early-stage product.
Experience working with time-series data.
Experience collaborating with distributed teams across multiple time zones.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and scale our backend infrastructure to process time-series network traffic, at large scale, in real-time.
Build and maintain AI algorithms to analyze time-series network data to improve API discovery, metrics, and more.
Take ownership of the engineering roadmap for the backend infrastructure of Postman Insights, setting the technical direction and priorities.
Collaborate with documentation and marketing teams to help explain the capabilities and limitations that the infrastructure unlocks.
Partner with the broader team to make design and architecture decisions for Postman Insights.
Support the engineering manager in growing the team by contributing to technical planning, onboarding new members, and participating in hiring efforts.