Postman
About this role
Postman is the API platform used by more than 45 million developers and 98 percent of the Fortune 500, and it was founded in Bangalore, which is where this role sits. The job is building the observability platform the rest of Postman engineering depends on: metrics, logging, distributed tracing, alerting and operational analytics, plus the tooling that makes incidents faster to detect and diagnose. A real part of the work is investigation, taking difficult production problems apart and driving the long term fix rather than the patch. Read the title carefully though. The posting is listed as Senior Engineer but the description asks for a Staff Engineer and states 10+ years, so the actual bar is well above the title.
Who this is for
What the posting asks for:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant exposure to distributed systems and cloud native architectures.
- Strong expertise in observability: monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, telemetry pipelines and incident management.
- Experience operating large scale production systems with a focus on reliability, scalability and performance.
- Deep understanding of system debugging, root cause analysis, performance optimisation and production operations.
- Strong programming experience in one or more of Go, Java, Python, Node.js or similar.
- Experience with observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk or Honeycomb.
- The ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority.
- Strong communication and a data driven approach.
Counts as a bonus:
- Building internal developer platforms or observability platforms at scale.
- Exposure to AIOps, intelligent alerting, anomaly detection or AI powered operational tooling.
- Driving reliability initiatives across multiple engineering organisations.
- A background in SRE, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering or developer productivity.
The day to day: driving the technical vision and architecture for Postman's observability platform, designing scalable solutions for metrics, logging, tracing, alerting and operational analytics, investigating complex production issues and driving long term corrective action, partnering with engineering teams on reliability and operational maturity, establishing observability standards and instrumentation frameworks, building tooling and automation for faster incident detection and resolution, using telemetry to find performance bottlenecks and capacity risks, and mentoring senior engineers.
Experience: the posting states 10+ years. This is the clearest title mismatch in today's list: the role is advertised as Senior Engineer, but the opportunity section says "We are looking for a Staff Engineer" and the requirement is 10+ years. Do not rule yourself in or out on the title.
Location and office days, stated explicitly: Postman values in person collaboration. Bangalore based employees currently work in the office three days a week and will move to five days a week by the end of the year. That is a material change and worth weighing now rather than later.
Who should apply: an experienced platform, SRE or infrastructure engineer who likes diagnosis and wants company wide scope. If you are a senior engineer at six or seven years, the title will tempt you but the stated bar will not stretch that far.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant exposure to distributed systems and cloud native architectures.
- Strong expertise in observability: monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, telemetry pipelines and incident management.
- Experience operating large scale production systems with a focus on reliability, scalability and performance.
- Deep understanding of system debugging, root cause analysis, performance optimisation and production operations.
- Strong programming experience in one or more of Go, Java, Python, Node.js or similar.
- Experience with observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk or Honeycomb.
- The ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority.
- Strong communication and a data driven approach.
Counts as a bonus:
- Building internal developer platforms or observability platforms at scale.
- Exposure to AIOps, intelligent alerting, anomaly detection or AI powered operational tooling.
- Driving reliability initiatives across multiple engineering organisations.
- A background in SRE, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering or developer productivity.
The day to day: driving the technical vision and architecture for Postman's observability platform, designing scalable solutions for metrics, logging, tracing, alerting and operational analytics, investigating complex production issues and driving long term corrective action, partnering with engineering teams on reliability and operational maturity, establishing observability standards and instrumentation frameworks, building tooling and automation for faster incident detection and resolution, using telemetry to find performance bottlenecks and capacity risks, and mentoring senior engineers.
Experience: the posting states 10+ years. This is the clearest title mismatch in today's list: the role is advertised as Senior Engineer, but the opportunity section says "We are looking for a Staff Engineer" and the requirement is 10+ years. Do not rule yourself in or out on the title.
Location and office days, stated explicitly: Postman values in person collaboration. Bangalore based employees currently work in the office three days a week and will move to five days a week by the end of the year. That is a material change and worth weighing now rather than later.
Who should apply: an experienced platform, SRE or infrastructure engineer who likes diagnosis and wants company wide scope. If you are a senior engineer at six or seven years, the title will tempt you but the stated bar will not stretch that far.
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