Senior Backend Engineer, Postman Insights

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 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

This is a 0-1 initiative.  With Postman Insights, our vision is to help guide a developer with little previous experience—in both the system being monitored and the Postman API Platform—to productively find and fix issues. Our goal is to be able to help any developer locate API endpoints causing potential issues within 15 minutes of signing up for an account. This will empower even a new developer to find and fix issues in their first days on the job, as easily as they can call an API today.

As we prepare to launch our open beta, we’re looking for an experienced backend engineer to make our solution drop-in across a variety of tech stacks. Right now, Postman Insights runs via the Postman Insights agent and is able to support onboarding small users across ECS, K8s, and EC2 in under 15 minutes. The goal is to support a wider variety of tech stacks, with increasingly complex deployments, to seamlessly install our agent in the same amount of time.

Read more here about our vision.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build infrastructure to support seamless onboarding for a wide variety of platforms.
• Develop integrations to capture API traffic across diverse environments, including Kubernetes (K8s), ECS, and EC2.
• Create configuration and usability features to enhance the onboarding experience, such as automated installation, remote configuration, telemetry, and orchestration automation.
• Take ownership of the engineering roadmap for the platform area, setting the technical direction and priorities.
• Collaborate with documentation and marketing teams to help users easily understand and deploy the Postman Insights Agent across environments like K8s, PaaS, and IaaS.
• Partner with the broader team to make design and architecture decisions for Postman Insights.
• Support the engineering manager in growing the team by contributing to technical planning, onboarding new members, and participating in hiring efforts.

About You

You’re an engineer who thrives on diving into the unknown, mastering new tech stacks, and tackling challenging, complex problems with a can-do attitude. You have a passion for delivering seamless and delightful experiences to users, no matter how intricate the technical hurdles may be.

As the first dedicated engineer in the platform area for Postman Insights, you’ll play a critical role in shaping the foundation of this team. Your work will not only directly impact the success of our platform but also set the stage for expanding the team and scaling our capabilities in this space.

• 5+ years of experience shipping production-grade software.
• Proven ability to work independently, with at least two significant projects where you were either the primary contributor delivering substantial portions of the work and/or led a team of engineers to successfully execute the project.
• Strong communication skills, with a track record of aligning cross-functional stakeholders and unblocking challenges to meet business objectives.
• Hands-on experience with 2+ technologies relevant to this role, such as Kubernetes (K8s), ECS, EC2, Docker, or the AWS API.
• Familiarity with infrastructure APIs, including platforms like AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience collaborating with remote and distributed teams across multiple time zones.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience working on a 0-to-1 product.
• Experience working on developer tools.
• Experience working on command-line interfaces.
• Experience building integrations with PaaS platforms and infrastructure-as-a-service.

This role is based in the greater San Francisco Bay area, and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from  $176,800 to $239,200, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensat