Who Are We?

Postman is the world's leading collaboration platform for API development. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API & streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster. More than 35 million developers & 500,000 organizations worldwide use Postman today, and we continue to strive humbly towards our mission of 100 million connected developers & serving companies as they seek to innovate in an API-first world. Our customers are doing more and more astounding things with the Postman product every day, and as a result, we are growing rapidly.

We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture & our vision at Postman.

About the Team

At Postman, the Identity and Access Management(IAM) team is the backbone of the Postman ecosystem and is responsible for authenticating and authorizing every user request. The team oversees many user and team management and governance features such as login, signup, SSO, SCIM, RBAC, MFA, etc. In terms of scale, the team owns top services, handling more than 1 billion API calls daily.

The IAM Platform team is responsible for ensuring the systems' security, reliability, performance, availability and scalability for the millions of Postman users. Postman is a great collaboration tool, and the IAM team enables reliable collaboration at scale. Our mission is to establish Postman's Identity Management platform as the go-to Identity, Authentication, and Authorization platform for users and organizations all over the world.

What You'll Do:

As the Software Engineer-II for the IAM platform team, you will:

• Contribute to developing secure, reliable, performant and scalable IAM services and components.

• Contribute to developing APIs and products while collaborating with a cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, and quality, security and platform engineers.

• Build the foundational tools, frameworks, and systems that the IAM developers and other consumers can use to support the organisation's needs.

• Be involved in research areas such as role engineering and session management and implement the standardized formats that meet the platform's cross-functional authentication and authorization needs.

• Work with a product-focused and platform-engineering mindset, empathising with users.

About You:

You might be a good fit if you:

• Have 3-6 years of experience developing complex and distributed software applications at scale.

• Are proficient with Javascript and any server-side programming language.

• Have a profound understanding of web fundamentals, web application development lifecycle and microservices architecture.

• Have a strong knowledge of database fundamentals, especially performance tuning aspects such as query optimization, indexing, caching, etc.

• Are a self-motivated individual who approaches challenges with a creative and innovative mindset.

• Like being the DRI(Directly Responsible Individual) and taking ownership of the assignments.

• Enjoy learning and sharing knowledge within and across teams.

Nice to have:

• Working with NodeJS and ReactJS.

• The IAM domain or understanding of auth products, protocols, methods ( OAuth, SAML, OIDC etc.).

• Working with container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), CI/CD (e.g. GitHub), monitoring and logging tools (e.g. NewRelic), and Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS).

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.

What Else?

We offer competitive salary and benefits, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team. Enjoy full medical coverage, unlimited PTO, and a monthly lunch stipend. Yes, seriously. We want you to eat well wherever you’re at.) Plus, our wellness program will help you stay healthy from your location with fitness-related reimbursements. Our frequent and fascinating virtual 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, and we want you to be part of it.

This position requires you to be present in our Bangalore office on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays.