Postman
About this role
Postman is the API development platform most backend engineers have open in another window, and it was founded in Bangalore before headquartering in San Francisco. This role is on the Identity and Access Management team, which owns authentication, session management, access control, service accounts and invites. The posting makes the stakes plain: the identity layer sits on the path of every authenticated request. That is the most interesting thing about the job and the most demanding: you cannot ship carelessly on a component that every other request depends on, so the work is a mix of core platform improvement, new product capability and hardening. You would own projects end to end, from clarifying requirements through technical design, rollout and production support, working with product, design and other engineering teams.
Who this is for
Required by the posting: 5 or more years of experience building complex backend or distributed systems at scale.
The day to day: design, build and evolve the backend systems that power Postman's identity and authentication platform. Own projects end to end, which the posting spells out as clarifying requirements, driving technical design, implementing, managing rollout and supporting in production. Work closely with product, design and engineering to scope, build, test and launch new features and platform improvements.
What the team owns, per the posting: authentication, session management, access control, service accounts, invites and other foundational identity capabilities. The work is described as a mix of core platform improvements, new product capabilities and hardening, and the posting notes the identity layer sits on the path of every authenticated request and enables users, teams and systems to access Postman securely.
Location: Hyderabad for this posting. Postman is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London and Bangalore, where it was founded. Office days are not stated on this particular posting, and other Postman postings have carried a Bangalore specific office policy that does not apply here, so ask rather than assume.
Who should apply: backend engineers five or more years in who have worked on authentication, authorisation or another platform component with a blast radius covering the whole product. If you have implemented OAuth or SAML flows in production, or run a session store at scale, say so prominently in your application.
The day to day: design, build and evolve the backend systems that power Postman's identity and authentication platform. Own projects end to end, which the posting spells out as clarifying requirements, driving technical design, implementing, managing rollout and supporting in production. Work closely with product, design and engineering to scope, build, test and launch new features and platform improvements.
What the team owns, per the posting: authentication, session management, access control, service accounts, invites and other foundational identity capabilities. The work is described as a mix of core platform improvements, new product capabilities and hardening, and the posting notes the identity layer sits on the path of every authenticated request and enables users, teams and systems to access Postman securely.
Location: Hyderabad for this posting. Postman is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London and Bangalore, where it was founded. Office days are not stated on this particular posting, and other Postman postings have carried a Bangalore specific office policy that does not apply here, so ask rather than assume.
Who should apply: backend engineers five or more years in who have worked on authentication, authorisation or another platform component with a blast radius covering the whole product. If you have implemented OAuth or SAML flows in production, or run a session store at scale, say so prominently in your application.
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