Staff Software Engineer, Business Platform

Postman; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 245,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Flexible PTO

Wellness reimbursement

Lunch stipend

Job summary

Postman, the world’s leading API platform, seeks a Staff Engineer to set long-term architecture vision for the Business Platform. You will lead multiple teams, ensure secure, scalable services, and own critical operational KPIs like availability and uptime.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years in backend engineering, strong identity management knowledge, and proven leadership with a growth mindset. This is a senior, hands-on role based in the San Francisco area.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
• Strong experience with identity management standards (SAML, SCIM, SSO, OAuth, FIDO).
• 10+ years hands-on coding and 10+ years building end-to-end back-end services.
• Proven track record leading cross-functional projects with meaningful business impact.
• Exceptional problem solving, design and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for architecture and ensure scalable, secure back-end systems for hundreds of millions of developers.
• Identify dependencies and review designs to ensure architectural alignment and business support.
• Lead multiple projects with key stakeholders and drive delivery.
• Build an operational center of excellence with observability, scale, performance, and quality focus.
• Be hands-on and lead by example, mentoring senior engineers and growing leadership.

Skills

Hands-on coding

System design

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentorship

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

C

C++

Java

PHP

Python

JavaScript

NodeJS

Job description

Who Are We?

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 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.

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 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 offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman 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

As agentic AI becomes the core fabric of how engineering is done worldwide, we want to be the leaders in how agents interact with APIs. This transformation requires solving agentic identity, extending or building new standards and protocols, building agent-to-agent interactions including authorization, licensing, trust delegation, security and monetization.

We are looking for an exceptional Staff Engineer to help us build the next generation of our Business Platform to support the agentic era. You will be responsible for setting the vision for the long term architecture of various components in the Business Platform. You’ll be accountable for strategy, technical roadmap and architecture of the platform. You’ll work with multiple teams, overseeing and contributing to delivery and owning critical operational KPIs such as availability and uptime. Your role involves designing, implementing, and running critical tier 0 services for the company. 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 would bring their prior experience to the table with a growth mindset to solve industry-wide problems. 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 Identity Platform.

The ideal candidate is also strongly aligned with our values. We create with the same curiosity we see in our users. We value 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

About You

• 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 Sr. EMs within the org and product leaders within the company
  • Help the teams prioritize work and create a balanced roadmap
• Collaboration
  • 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
• Mentorship
  • Be a mentor for senior engineers and help others grow
  • Build the next level of engineering leadership
  • Master’s degree in a Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
  • Strong experience with relevant industry standards in the identity management space (e.g. SAML, SCIM, SSO, oAuth, FIDO)
  • 10+ years of experience hands on coding and familiarity with common programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS)
  • 10+ years of engineering experience building end-end back end services
  • 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
  • Bias for action
  • Sense of humor

This role is based in the greater San Francisco area, and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $245,250 to $300,000, 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.

Equal Opportunity

Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action Employer. 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.