Staff Software Engineer, Postman Insights

Postman•San Francisco, CA

1d•$270,000 - $300,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 40 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, 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. Insights reduces mean time to resolution for incidents and API bugs by making it easier to identify, root cause, and reproduce incidents. The Insights agent watches all API traffic at the network, using AI to automatically discover API endpoints and integrating with Postman’s Request Builder to support seamless replay of API errors across environments. As we build towards GA, we are looking for an experienced engineer to drive scaling efforts for our solution. Today, we run a system built on top of a time-series database that processes billions of requests a week on our dogfooding data alone. As our product matures and we roll out to more users, it will be important to continue improving latency, reliability, and scale, all without disrupting service to existing users. We’re looking for a pragmatic leader with experience handling large amounts of streaming data. Watch our POST/CON demo here .

Requirements

Strong experience with industry standards on streaming data.
Experience being on-call for a user-facing application.
Track record leading engineers to deliver.
Impressive portfolio of projects launched.
Track record of leading projects from conception to results, that have impact on the entire company.
Excellent tolerance for chaos and a good sense of humor.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nice To Haves

Experience working on a 0-to-1 product.
Experience working on B2B product and/or developer tools.

Responsibilities

Collaborate to set technical vision and roadmap, based on short-term and long-term business goals and product requirements.
Provide technical leadership on the architecture, balancing business goals, product requirements, and the realities of the existing system.
De-risk larger projects by leading proofs of concept and measurement efforts.
Mentor other engineers on your team and across the company.
Lead by example by rolling up your sleeves on product and infra.