Postman is looking to solve the problem of simplifying the API client experience, delighting developers, and building a multi-protocol future for its users, which includes 98% of the Fortune 500 and over 40 million developers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with a strong foundation in Node.js and/or Golang.
- Deep expertise and experience in Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana, and modern CI/CD infrastructure
- Experience building, maintaining, and scaling distributed systems in production environments.
- Strong foundation in systems thinking, including observability, reliability, performance.
- Familiarity with distributed tracing tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Jaeger).
- Knowledge of CRDTs, real-time systems, or collaborative libraries and technologies like yjs
- Past experience in developer tools or API platforms.
Responsibilities
- Leading the design and evolution of backend systems that power request sending, local runtimes, and telemetry for the API client.
- Owning our observability pipelines—building tools and instrumentation that help us identify, diagnose, and resolve issues affecting thousands of developers in real time.
- Migrating services to Kubernetes-based infrastructure with a focus on performance, security, and cost efficiency.
- Defining new baselines for clean, fault-tolerant, and maintainable services that scale across millions of users.
- Collaborating with frontend engineers, designers, and PMs to shape API client features from end to end—because we don’t believe in silos.
- Building scalable systems and proactively improving our platform’s performance, reliability, and observability.
- Identifying bottlenecks and building tools to improve the API client experience
Other
- Communicate clearly and effectively especially in async and distributed team settings.
- See beyond your function. You’re not just writing backend code, you’re building a product experience you believe in.
- Navigate legacy codebases and leave them better than you found them.
- Full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend.
- 3-days a week in-office work model for employees based out of San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and New York
