2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own critical Fabric Gateway systems from the ground up.
- Lead architecture decisions for fast, reliable, high-throughput distributed systems that scale horizontally.
- Drive technical direction, establish engineering patterns, and make high-leverage architectural decisions.
- Own observability, performance, reliability, SLA targets, monitoring, and on-call operations end to end.
- Collaborate with engineering management and product management to scope milestones and deliver toward Early Access and GA.
- Participate in design and code reviews, raise engineering standards, and mentor fellow engineers.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building infrastructure-level or platform software in cloud-native or SaaS environments.
- Proven experience taking a system from whiteboard to production and operating it at scale.
- Deep expertise designing distributed systems that handle high throughput, remain resilient under load, and scale horizontally.
- Proficiency in Go and strong systems programming and performance-sensitive coding fundamentals.
- Knowledge of mTLS, JWT, OAuth 2.0, and RBAC/ABAC security primitives.
- Ability to take ownership of reliability, performance, and security concerns.
- Strong communication skills and comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
- Prior experience building or extending platform or gateway products is preferred.
- Familiarity with HTTP/2, gRPC, WebSockets, Helm, Kubernetes operators, and CRDs is preferred.
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure or developer tooling and experience in an early-stage 0-to-1 environment are preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible schedule and collaborative team environment.
- Comprehensive medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend.
- Wellness programs, team-building events, and a donation-matching program.
- In-office work five days per week in the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Austin, New York City, Tokyo, and London hubs; Bangalore employees currently work three days per week and are expected to transition to five days per week by year end.
Tech Stack
About Postman
Postman builds a SaaS platform for designing, testing, documenting, and managing APIs used by software teams across development and operations. The company sells free and paid plans, including enterprise features for collaboration, security, and governance, and offers desktop and cloud tools. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, Postman is privately held and reports adoption by over 40 million developers and 500,000 organizations worldwide.