Senior Engineer

Who Are We?

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster.

The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman.

P.S: We highly recommend reading

The "API-First World" graphic novel

to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.

About The Team

The Performance Automation and Monitoring team is redefining how developers test and validate performance at Postman. We build enterprise-grade performance, automation, and monitoring platforms, and are pioneering Agentic AI–driven testing that allows developers to create performance and automation tests without writing code—directly impacting customer trust and paid adoption.

What You’ll Do

Design and build scalable, distributed performance testing infrastructure

Develop Agentic AI–powered systems that enable no-code/low-code performance and automation testing

Partner with AI platform teams to define agent workflows, abstractions, and guardrails

Integrate performance testing, automation, and monitoring into a unified quality platform

Collaborate with product, frontend, and platform teams across the US and India

Help make performance a default, trusted signal in the development and release lifecycle

About You

6-8 years experience as Software Engineer

Have strong experience building distributed backend systems at scale

Have worked on performance testing, reliability, automation, or observability platforms

Are excited about applying Agentic AI to improve developer workflows

Enjoy translating complex systems into simple, powerful developer experiences

Are comfortable owning systems end to end and working with distributed teams

The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $220,000 to $240,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.

What Else?

In addition to Postman's pay-on-performance philosophy, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team, Postman offers a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Along with that, our wellness programs will help you stay in the best of your physical and mental health. Our frequent and fascinating team-building events will keep you connected, while our donation-matching program can support the causes you care about. We’re building a long-term company with an inclusive culture where everyone can be the best version of themselves.

At Postman, we embrace a hybrid work model. For all roles based out of San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Austin, Tokyo, Bangalore, Hyderabad, London, and New York, employees are expected to come into the office 3-days a week. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on balancing flexibility and collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce, leadership team, and peers. The benefits of our hybrid office model will be shared knowledge, brainstorming sessions, communication, and building trust in-person that cannot be replicated via zoom.

Our Values

At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency and honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.

Equal Opportunity

Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.