Staff Engineer Identity Platform
Staff Engineer Identity Platform
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$ 245250 - 300000
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Job Description
Who Are We
Postman is the worlds leading API platform used by more than 35 million developers and 500000 organizations including 98 of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the APIfirst world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaborationenabling users to create better APIs faster.
The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore where it was founded. Postman is privately held with funding from Battery Ventures BOND Coatue CRV Insight Partners and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman.
P.S: We highly recommend reading The APIFirst World graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an exceptional Staff Engineer to build the next generation of our Identity platform. You will be responsible for setting the vision for the long term architecture of our Identity Platform. Youll be accountable for strategy technical roadmap and architecture of the platform. Youll work with multiple teams within Identity Engineering overseeing and contributing to delivery and owning critical KPIs such as availability and uptime. Your role involves designing implementing and running critical tier 0 services for the company. Were looking for a seasoned individual contributor leader who can work effectively with product management and engineering leaders within the company and build a high quality platform.
The ideal candidate is a strategic leader with attention to detail and a relentless drive for quality. They should be comfortable being very hands on and at the same being able to uplevel and provide high level guidance for others to execute. They should mentor senior engineers within the org to grow the next level of engineering leadership. They should also be strong communicators who can influence other leaders. Finally they should have strong industry knowledge and bring best practices from the broader industry to the Postman Identity Platform.
The ideal candidate is also strongly aligned with our values. We create with the same curiosity we see in our users. We value transparency and honest communication about our successes and failures. We have an inclusive work culture where we value diversity of opinion. We are motivated by delivering the absolute best experience for our users.
What Youll 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 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
- 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
- Masters 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 endend back end services
- Demonstrated experience leading crossfunctional projects with a meaningful impact on the business
- Exceptional problem solving design and analytical skills
- Demonstrated experience designing highly scalable systems
- Sense of humor
This role is based in the greater San Francisco area and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $245250 to $300000 plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidates skills qualifications and experience.
What Else
In addition to Postmans payonperformance 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. Along with that our wellness programs will help you stay in the best of your physical and mental health. If you have little ones in your family the creche allowance can help in supporting your worklife balance. Our frequent and fascinating teambuilding events will keep you connected while our donationmatching program can support the causes you care about. Were building a longterm company with an inclusive culture where everyone can be the best version of themselves.
At Postman we embrace a hybrid work model. For all roles based out of San Francisco Bay Area Boston Bangalore Noida Hyderabad and New York employees are expected to come into the office 3days a week. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on balancing flexibility and collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce leadership team and peers. The benefits of our hybrid office model will be shared knowledge brainstorming sessions communication and building trust inperson that cannot be replicated via zoom.
Our Values
At Postman we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency and honest communication about not only successes but also failures. In our work we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.
Equal opportunity
Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender perception or identity national origin age marital status protected veteran status or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any thirdparty agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
