Staff Software Engineer, Postman Insights

Who Are We?

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 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.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 .

What You’ll Do

We’re looking for a technical leader who loves a good scaling challenge:

• 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.

About You

The ideal candidate has substantial experience with industry standards around streaming data and SaaS apps and can deftly navigate team and org-level dynamics to drive the intended impact.

Must have:

• 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-have:

• Experience working on a 0-to-1 product.

• Experience working on B2B product and/or developer tools.

The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $250,000 to $290,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. 

What Else?

In addition to Postman's 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. We’re 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, Bangalore, Hyderabad, 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 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 third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.