Senior Engineer, IAM
Skills & Stack
About the Role
The Identity and Access Management team builds a secure, reliable and seamless identity platform for all Postman users. The team owns authentication, session management, access control, service accounts, invites and other foundational identity capabilities. This layer sits on the path of every authenticated request, so the work spans core platform improvements, new product capabilities and reliability and security investments.
About Postman
Postman is the leading API platform in the world, used by more than 45 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London and Bangalore, where Postman was founded.
What You'll Do
- 1Design, build and evolve backend systems that power the Postman identity and authentication platform
- 2Own projects end to end: clarify requirements, drive technical design, implement, manage rollout and support production
- 3Improve system reliability, scalability, observability and operational readiness for team-owned services
- 4Lead execution for projects involving 2 to 3 engineers, including task breakdown, technical guidance and code reviews
- 5Participate in debugging, incident response, root cause analysis and long-term production fixes
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience building complex backend or distributed systems at scale
- Experience designing and operating production systems with strong reliability requirements
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, networking, data modeling and system design
- Experience with backend technologies such as Node.js, Java, Python, Go or Ruby
- Familiarity with authentication, authorization, identity, RBAC or security-sensitive systems is a plus, not required
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