Staff Engineer, Product Trust

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. 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 We are looking for an exceptional Staff Engineer to build the next generation of our security offerings in the Postman product. You’ll be accountable for strategy, technical roadmap and architecture of the platform. You’ll work with multiple teams within Identity Engineering overseeing and contributing to delivery and owning critical KPIs such as availability and uptime. Your role involves designing, implementing, and running critical services for the security features in the product. 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 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’s security and trust offerings. 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 • 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 engineering leaders 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 About you • Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science related field or equivalent practical experience • 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 • Strong experience with security offerings such as vault store, token scanning, cryptography etc. • 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 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…