Staff Software Engineer, Business Platform

Postman•San Francisco, CA

6h•Onsite

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. As agentic AI becomes the core fabric of how engineering is done worldwide, Postman aims to be leaders in how agents interact with APIs. This transformation requires solving agentic identity, extending or building new standards and protocols, building agent-to-agent interactions including authorization, licensing, trust delegation, security and monetization. Postman is looking for an exceptional Staff Engineer to help build the next generation of its Business Platform to support the agentic era. This role involves setting the vision for the long term architecture of various components in the Business Platform, being accountable for strategy, technical roadmap and architecture, and working with multiple teams to oversee and contribute to delivery and own critical operational KPIs such as availability and uptime. The Staff Engineer will design, implement, and run critical tier 0 services for the company. The ideal candidate is a seasoned individual contributor leader who can work effectively with product management and engineering leaders within the company and build a high quality platform. They should be a strategic leader with attention to detail and a relentless drive for quality, bringing prior experience with a growth mindset to solve industry-wide problems. They should be comfortable being very hands-on while also being able to uplevel and provide high-level guidance for others to execute, and mentor senior engineers to grow the next level of engineering leadership. Strong communication skills to influence other leaders and strong industry knowledge to bring best practices to the Postman Identity Platform are also valued. The ideal candidate is strongly aligned with Postman's values of curiosity, transparency, honest communication, inclusivity, diversity of opinion, and delivering the best user experience.

Requirements

Master’s degree in a Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
Strong experience with relevant industry standards in the identity management space (e.g. SAML, SCIM, SSO, oAuth, FIDO)
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
Bias for action
Sense of humor

Responsibilities

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 hundreds of millions of developers
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
Partner with the Sr. EMs within the org and product leaders within the company
Help the teams prioritize work and create a balanced roadmap
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
Be a mentor for senior engineers and help others grow
Build the next level of engineering leadership