Staff Software Engineer, Business Platform

The Opportunity

As agentic AI becomes the core fabric of how engineering is done worldwide, we want to be the leaders in how agents interact with APIs. This transformation requires solving agentic identity, extending or building new standards and protocols, building agent-to-agent interactions including authorization, licensing, trust delegation, security and monetization.

We are looking for an exceptional Staff Engineer to help us build the next generation of our Business Platform to support the agentic era. You will be responsible for setting the vision for the long term architecture of various components in the Business Platform. You’ll be accountable for strategy, technical roadmap and architecture of the platform. You’ll work with multiple teams, overseeing and contributing to delivery and owning critical operational KPIs such as availability and uptime. Your role involves designing, implementing, and running critical tier 0 services for the company. 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 would bring their prior experience to the table with a growth mindset to solve industry-wide problems. 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 Identity Platform.

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 Sr. EMs 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

• Master’s degree in a Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

• Strong experience with relevant industry standards in the identity management space (e.g. SAML, SCIM, SSO, oAuth, FIDO)

• 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

• 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

• Bias for action

• Sense of humor

This role is based in the greater San Francisco area, and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $245,250 to $300,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.