Backend Engineer, IAM & OAuth Platforms

Postman, Inc.; Cupertino (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full medical coverage

Flexible PTO

Wellness reimbursement

Monthly lunch stipend

Wellness programs

Team-building events

Donation-matching program

Job summary

Postman, Inc. in Cupertino (CA) is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and scale the Identity and Access Management (IAM) platform. You will build authentication standards, contribute to secure, scalable services, and collaborate with product, design, security, and platform teams.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in backend systems, strong database skills, and a track record of delivering products from scratch. Bonus for familiarity with OAuth, SAML, and OIDC.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building complex backend or distributed systems at scale.
• Strong knowledge of database fundamentals, performance tuning, indexing and caching.
• Proven track record delivering products from scratch.
• (Bonus) Familiarity with auth products, protocols and methods (OAuth, SAML, OIDC).

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize the auth standards and protocols such as OAuth2.0, OIDC, SCIM, SAML and so on.
• Contribute to the development of secure, reliable and scalable IAM platform components.
• Be involved in research areas such as role engineering, session management, and implement standardized formats meeting cross-functional AuthN and AuthZ needs for the platform.
• Contribute to developing APIs and products while working with a cross-functional team of Product Managers, Designers, Support and Product, Quality, Security and Platform Engineers.
• Utilize your technical and domain expertise to help architect the solution and facilitate cross-squad knowledge sharing on best practices.
• Design & build any additional internal tooling required to ease the development & maintenance of the product.
• Contribute to creating a cohesive identity framework for postman.ai , Postman's forward-looking AI product suite

Skills

Backend systems

Database fundamentals

Auth protocols

Distributed systems

Job description

Postman, Inc. in Cupertino (CA) is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and scale the Identity and Access Management (IAM) platform. You will build authentication standards, contribute to secure, scalable services, and collaborate with product, design, security, and platform teams.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in backend systems, strong database skills, and a track record of delivering products from scratch. Bonus for familiarity with OAuth, SAML, and OIDC.