Senior Platform Engineer, Postman

Observability Agent

$181.1-208.9k

+ Equity

AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GCP
Azure
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

3+ days a week in office

Postman

Collaboration platform for API development

Open for applications

Postman

Collaboration platform for API development

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSAPICloud Computing

Open for applications

$181.1-208.9k

+ Equity

AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GCP
Azure
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

3+ days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSAPICloud Computing

Company mission

To simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster.

Role

Who you are

  • 4+ years of experience shipping production software
  • Track record of delivery. Impressive portfolio of past projects launched
  • Experience working independently. 2+ substantial past projects where you were the sole contributor responsible for delivering large parts of the work
  • Experience working with 2+ technologies related to this role: K8s, ECS, EC2, Docker, or the AWS API
  • Experience working with infrastructure APIs, for instance AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, or GCP
  • Substantial overlap with Pacific Time Zone

Desirable

  • Experience working on a 0-to-1 product
  • Experience working on developer tools
  • Experience working on command-line interfaces
  • Experience with PaaS platforms and infrastructure-as-a-service
  • Based in the San Francisco Bay Area

What the job involves

  • As we prepare to launch our open beta, we’re looking for a scrappy ecosystem and integrations 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
  • Build configuration and usability features in the Postman Insights Agent: install automation; remote configuration; telemetry; orchestration automation
  • Build integrations for capturing API traffic across different platforms, including K8s, ECS, EC2
  • Work with docs and marketing to help users understand agent deployment in different environments (K8s, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
  • Collaborate with the rest of team on design and architecture decisions involving the Postman Insights Agent

Our take

Postman is a SaaS collaboration platform designed to streamline API development teams. APIs serve as the backbone for communication and data sharing across numerous applications, playing a pivotal role in today's device-centric landscape. The platform offers tools for testing, version control, and documentation, ensuring the efficient production of APIs.

Initially founded in Bangalore, Postman has since relocated its headquarters to San Francisco. With a prestigious clientele including X, Shopify, and Intuit, the platform boasts over 15M developers worldwide. Postman actively engages with the API developer community through various initiatives, such as hosting hackathons with enticing cash prizes.

The growing reliance on APIs to fuel digital transformation, compounded by the widespread shift to remote work and digitalization, underscores their critical importance. Moreover, the sensitive nature of APIs, given the data they transmit and the potential security risks, accentuates the need for robust development practices. Hence, Postman has thrived as companies seek to develop secure APIs efficiently to meet evolving demands.

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Company

Company benefits

  • Health care: Based on where you're located and the plans available there, you can have up to 100% of your and your family's premium costs covered by Postman, or receive a generous monthly allowance to supplement existing medical coverage
  • Unlimited PTO: All full-time Postman employees have unlimited paid time off (PTO). We strongly encourage everyone to exercise this benefit to ensure that personal and work lives remain well-balanced, healthy, and fully charged. Your body, mind, spirit, and loved ones will appreciate it!
  • Supporting healthy meals: We want to ensure you eat healthy each day. It's why we provide a taxable monthly stipend so that you can be nourished throughout the week
  • Play well, be well: We're serious about your wellness. Whether it's a boxing club membership, hula classes, or a longboard, we're here to cheer you on to get out and get moving. We'll reimburse you for activities and items that bring you joy through our wellness and fitness program
  • A room with a view: We want you set up for success! To help make your home office comfortable, we'll provide a one-time reimbursement for your office set-up and headphones. Internet and phone costs are also reimbursable on a monthly basis
  • Career development: We support your career development by providing access to unlimited courses on Udemy and a book allowance. Enhance and uplevel your skills, and even learn something completely new!

Company values

  • Create with curiosity: We repeatedly ask, “Why?” and challenge best practices. Asking “Why?” and “Why not?” is how we start each experimental journey, with a willingness to fail until we succeed. At Postman, no star is too far to shoot for
  • Earn trust: We seek input first and listen before taking action. We're always open to perspectives because a diversity of thought and discussion improves our chances of discovering the best solutions
  • Embrace constraints: We see constraints as an opportunity to be creative and resourceful with the people and tools we have available to us
  • Win together: We count on each other, always offer help, and focus on solutions. We are a hybrid workplace spanning the globe, but Postmanauts are part of a tight, trusting community that appreciates each person's contributions toward Postman's mission
  • Own & deliver: We learn from our mistakes and adapt with ease. We push ourselves to take bold but smart risks, and we celebrate failures for the learnings we gain as a result

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

They began their career as CTO of BITS360, which they co-founded in 2007, before co-founding Grayscale Design and TeliportMe. They used this entrepreneurial experience to co-found Postman in October 2014, aiming to simplify API development.

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