Senior Engineering Manager, Identity Platform

Who Are We

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 35 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 an office in Bangalore, where it 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 (formerly Twitter) via @getpostman.

P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Engineering Manager to build the next generation of our Identity platform. You will be responsible for leading multiple teams within Identity Engineering. Your role involves designing, implementing, and running critical tier 0 services for the company. We’re looking for a seasoned 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 able to strike a balance between short term needs and long term objectives. They should also be able to build and motivate high performing teams, and be generous listeners to their team members and peers alike.

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

• People Leadership
• Hire, build and support multiple engineering teams. Be an effective manager of managers.
• Hire, retain and grow exceptional engineering talent
• 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
• Decision Making and Goal Setting
• • Help the teams prioritize work, create a balanced roadmap
  • Define, measure and own key metrics for the performance of your team and set clear expectations and goals
• 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

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Master’s degree in a Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• Experience with industry standards in the identity management space (e.g. SAML, SCIM, SSO, oAuth, FIDO)  is a plus
• 5+ years of experience 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
• 5+ years of experience in recruiting, structuring and managing engineering teams
• 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

Our Values

At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency & 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.

What Else?

If the role is based in the greater San Francisco area, and the reasonably estimated salary for this