Staff Software Engineer, Postman Insights

Staff Software Engineer, Postman Insights

Overview

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 40 million developers and 500,000 organizations. Postman helps developers and professionals build in an API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and enabling collaboration.

With Postman Insights, our vision is to help all developers more quickly find and fix production issues. Insights reduces mean time to resolution for incidents and API bugs by identifying, root-causing, and reproducing incidents. The Insights agent watches API traffic, uses AI to discover endpoints, and integrates with Request Builder to replay API errors across environments.

We are looking for a technical leader to drive scaling efforts for our solution as we mature and roll out to more users. This role focuses on latency, reliability, and scale for a system built on top of a time-series database handling billions of requests weekly.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to set technical vision and roadmap based on short-term and long-term goals and product requirements.
• Provide technical leadership on architecture, balancing business goals, product requirements, and current system realities.
• De-risk larger projects by leading proofs of concept and measurement efforts.
• Mentor other engineers on the team and across the company.
• Lead by example by actively contributing to product and infrastructure work.

About You

The ideal candidate has substantial experience with streaming data and SaaS apps and can navigate team and org dynamics to drive impact.

Must have :

Nice-to-have :

Compensation : The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $250,000 to $290,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience.

What Else?

Postman offers a comprehensive benefits package including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. We support wellness programs, team-building events, and a donation-matching program. We’re building a long-term, inclusive culture where everyone can be their best.

Our hybrid work model applies to roles in the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and New York, with an expectation to come into the office 3 days a week for collaboration and in-person activities.

Our Values

We value curiosity, transparency, and honest communication about successes and failures. We focus on goals that contribute to a larger vision, and we strive for an inclusive culture where everyone is valued as an important part of the final product.

Equal opportunity

Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. We do not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters or recruitment agencies.

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