Senior Engineer, Postman Insights

Who Are We

Postman is the worlds leading API platform used by more than 45 million developers and 500000 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 collaborationenabling 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 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.

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. Youll 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.

What youll do

• 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.

About you

Youre 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 youll 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.

Previous Experience

Must have:

• 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-have:

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

The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $210000 to 240000 plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidates skills qualifications and experience.

What Else

In addition to Postmans 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. Along with that our wellness programs will help you stay in the best of your physical and mental health. Our frequent and fascinating team-building events will keep you connected while our donation-matching program can support the causes you care about. Were building a long-term 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 Austin Tokyo Bangalore Hyderabad London and New York employees are expected to come into the office 3-days 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 in-person 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 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 third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.