Staff Engineer, Product Trust

Postman; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full medical coverage

Flexible PTO

Wellness reimbursement

Monthly lunch stipend

Team-building events

Job summary

Postman is looking for a Staff Engineer in Bengaluru to lead the next generation of security offerings. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership, oversee architecture, and ensure high-quality, scalable systems for security features. Responsibilities include mentoring senior engineers and collaborating with engineering and product teams. Ideal candidates should have over 10 years of experience, strong security knowledge, and exceptional problem-solving skills. Postman offers flexible working, comprehensive benefits, and values collaboration in an inclusive culture.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience building end-to-end back end services.
• Strong experience with security offerings such as vault store, token scanning, and cryptography.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects with a meaningful impact on the business.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for architecture and build highly secure, scalable systems.
• Help teams prioritize work and create a balanced roadmap.
• Mentor senior engineers and build the next level of engineering leadership.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Problem Solving

Security Offerings

Analytical Skills

Designing Scalable Systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science related field

Job description

We are looking for an exceptional Staff Engineer to build the next generation of our security offerings in the Postman product. You’ll be accountable for strategy, technical roadmap and architecture of the platform. You’ll 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 services for the security features in the product. We’re 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’s security and trust offerings.

The ideal candidate is also strongly aligned with our values. We create with the same curiosity we see in our users. Wevalue 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 You’ll 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 engineering leaders within the org and product leaders within the company
• Help the teams prioritize work and create a balanced roadmap
• 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
• Be a mentor for senior engineers and help others grow
• Build the next level of engineering leadership

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science related field or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of engineering experience building end-end back end services
• Strong experience with security offerings such as vault store, token scanning, cryptography etc.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects with a meaningful impact on the business
• Exceptional problem solving, design, and analytical skills
• Demonstrated experience designing highly scalable systems
• Sense of humor

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, 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.

Equal opportunity

Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affimative 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.