Postman
About this role
Postman makes the API development platform used by more than 45 million developers and 500,000 organisations including 98 percent of the Fortune 500, and it was founded in Bangalore, so the India office is a primary engineering site rather than a satellite. This role is on the messaging platform, and the framing is platform engineering rather than product feature work: building durable, scalable capabilities that other engineering teams inside Postman build on top of. The posting asks for experience designing APIs, frameworks or platform abstractions used by multiple teams, and for a real understanding of reliability, observability, operational excellence and the ways systems fail. It also states a preference worth noting, which is simple reliable solutions over unnecessary complexity, and asks for the ownership to move ambiguous projects from idea to production. There is one practical detail you should know before applying, because it materially changes the job for anyone optimising around flexibility, and it is covered below.
Who this is for
What the posting requires
- 6+ years of backend engineering building distributed systems, platform services or large scale backend applications
- Strong proficiency in one or more common backend languages such as JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, PHP or C++
- Experience designing APIs, frameworks or platform abstractions used by multiple engineering teams
- A strong understanding of reliability, observability, operational excellence and system failure modes
- Experience with event driven architectures, messaging systems, queues, workflow engines or orchestration platforms
- The ability to translate product requirements into durable, scalable platform capabilities
- A collaborative mindset, with experience driving alignment across teams that have different priorities
- A preference for simple, reliable solutions over unnecessary complexity
- Strong communication and the ownership to move ambiguous projects from idea to production
Counts as a bonus, not a requirement
- Curiosity about AI and agentic product experiences, and how infrastructure needs to evolve to support them
Know this before you apply
Postman is direct about its in office model. Staff at its hubs in the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Austin, New York, Tokyo and London are in office five days a week. For roles based in Bangalore, employees currently work in the office three days a week and will transition to five days per week by the end of the year. If you are optimising for hybrid or remote flexibility, factor that in now rather than at offer stage.
Location and working pattern
Bengaluru, on the schedule described above.
A good fit if
You have genuine distributed systems depth, want to build platform capabilities other engineers depend on, and are happy working in an office.
Think twice if
Remote or hybrid flexibility matters to you. The direction of travel here is explicitly toward five days a week in office, and the posting states it rather than leaving it to be discovered.
- 6+ years of backend engineering building distributed systems, platform services or large scale backend applications
- Strong proficiency in one or more common backend languages such as JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, PHP or C++
- Experience designing APIs, frameworks or platform abstractions used by multiple engineering teams
- A strong understanding of reliability, observability, operational excellence and system failure modes
- Experience with event driven architectures, messaging systems, queues, workflow engines or orchestration platforms
- The ability to translate product requirements into durable, scalable platform capabilities
- A collaborative mindset, with experience driving alignment across teams that have different priorities
- A preference for simple, reliable solutions over unnecessary complexity
- Strong communication and the ownership to move ambiguous projects from idea to production
Counts as a bonus, not a requirement
- Curiosity about AI and agentic product experiences, and how infrastructure needs to evolve to support them
Know this before you apply
Postman is direct about its in office model. Staff at its hubs in the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Austin, New York, Tokyo and London are in office five days a week. For roles based in Bangalore, employees currently work in the office three days a week and will transition to five days per week by the end of the year. If you are optimising for hybrid or remote flexibility, factor that in now rather than at offer stage.
Location and working pattern
Bengaluru, on the schedule described above.
A good fit if
You have genuine distributed systems depth, want to build platform capabilities other engineers depend on, and are happy working in an office.
Think twice if
Remote or hybrid flexibility matters to you. The direction of travel here is explicitly toward five days a week in office, and the posting states it rather than leaving it to be discovered.
Apply on company site
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