10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years leading engineering teams
Depth you can prove on a hard technical problem you personally solved — a system you designed and debugged yourself, not a project you oversaw. We will ask you to go deep on this
Experience taking a validated product from 1→10 — scaling something that already had customers into something a large organization standardizes on. This is not a 0→1 role; the interesting problems here are breadth, scale, and trust rather than product discovery
Production ownership of an enterprise integration surface at breadth — many third-party providers, each with its own authentication, rate limits, permission model, and cloud-versus-self-hosted differences. You've felt the maintenance cost of the tenth connector
Demonstrated ability to ship work that depends on teams you don't manage, in an organization where those teams have their own roadmaps
Experience leading a senior-heavy team, where the job was elevating strong engineers rather than directing junior ones
Multi-tenant enterprise SaaS, including customers with on-prem or self-managed infrastructure and real compliance requirements
Full lifecycle ownership from design through production support
Clear, economical communication with engineers, executives, and customers. You'll be in front of all three
API gateway technologies and cloud provider control-plane APIs (AWS, GCP, Azure), plus Kubernetes
CI/CD systems and developer workflow tooling — you understand what it takes for a team to accept a new gate in their pipeline
Analytical datastores supporting customer-facing reporting (ClickHouse or similar), including the operational reality of them
Event-driven and asynchronous API technologies, particularly Kafka
Governance, audit, or compliance reporting for enterprise buyers
The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $280,000 to $320,000, 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 value in person collaboration. We are in office 5 days a week for all roles based out of our hubs in San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Austin, New York City, Tokyo and London. For roles based in Bangalore, employees currently work in the office three days a week and will transition to five days per week by the end of the year. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce, leadership team, and peers. The benefits of our in 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