Backend Software Engineer, Postman

• You’ll thrive here if you’re a generalist at heart with deep backend expertise—someone who isn’t satisfied with "it works" and instead asks "how does it scale," "how do we measure it," and "how do we make it better for the next 10 million users."
• Have 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with a strong foundation in Node.js and/or Golang
• Have deep expertise and experience in Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana, and modern CI/CD infrastructure
• Have built, maintained, and scaled distributed systems in production environments
• Think in systems: you’re passionate about observability, reliability, performance, and ensuring that these are understood by everyone on the team as it relates to our backend systems
• Can navigate legacy codebases and leave them better than you found them
• Communicate clearly and effectively especially in async and distributed team settings
• See beyond your function. You’re not just writing backend code, you’re building a product experience you believe in

Desirable

• The API client is the core beating heart of the Postman product experience
• It is what many users perceive as the entirety of Postman (although there is so much more!), and we have ambitious goals in 2024 and beyond to delight developers and simplify this central product experience
• As part of this, we're looking for a Backend Engineer to bring depth, craft, and resilience to the infrastructure that underpins it all
• Delight the Developer. The developer is central to Postman’s mission. We intend to meet them where they are—faster feedback cycles, GitHub-first thinking, and intuitive features that anticipate their needs and respect their time
• Simplify request sending and debugging. Postman’s power is immense—but we must distill that power into a smooth, low-friction experience that makes common tasks effortless and advanced workflows discoverable when needed
• Build the multi-protocol future. Postman isn’t just about REST anymore. We’re investing deeply in modern protocols—GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets—and tying them together into a seamless, end-to-end experience
• Behind every fast, reliable API call made in Postman is a constellation of backend systems doing the heavy lifting—executing code, orchestrating local runtimes, syncing data, collecting telemetry, and providing rock-solid observability
• As a Backend Engineer on the API Client team, you’ll do more than write backend code—you’ll own critical infrastructure that directly impacts millions of developers
• You’ll partner with engineers across the stack to identify bottlenecks, build scalable systems, and proactively improve our platform’s performance, reliability, and observability
• Leading the design and evolution of backend systems that power request sending, local runtimes, and telemetry for the API client
• Owning our observability pipelines—building tools and instrumentation that help us identify, diagnose, and resolve issues affecting thousands of developers in real time
• Migrating services to Kubernetes-based infrastructure with a focus on performance, security, and cost efficiency
• Defining new baselines for clean, fault-tolerant, and maintainable services that scale across millions of users
• Collaborating with frontend engineers, designers, and PMs to shape API client features from end to end—because we don’t believe in silos. You're not a “backend engineer.” You're an API client engineer with deep backend expertise