Senior Product Engineer

Who Are We?

Postman is the world's leading API platform, used by more than 40 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 an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at 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 Role

We're building the next generation of developer tool for API application performance engineering at Postman — and we're looking for a hands-on product engineer to lead the way.

This is not a typical engineering role. This is an early-stage high-agency position — for someone who's been at the messy, thrilling edge of new product development before, and wants to do it again. We're rethinking performance testing tooling from the ground up: making it mind-numbingly simple for developers to adopt, and eventually, technically sophisticated enough to handle the most demanding workloads across distributed systems for 45 million+ Postman users.

As the Product Engineer, you'll join a small, sharp team (2–3 engineers to begin with), and lead from the front — talking to the developer community, coding, experimenting, crafting communication, iterating, and building a usable product experience out of ambiguity. You'll obsess over the developer's workflow, work with raw feedback, and turn that into deeply integrated, category-leading tooling. You'll bring your full-stack skills, low-level systems know-how, and product sensibility to bear. And you'll take ownership — not just of code, but of product outcomes.

If you've ever hacked together your own load generators, profiled the weirdest bottlenecks in production, or dreamt of building a performance suite that just gets it without a ton of knobs and switches — this is for you.

What You'll Do

• Take ownership of Postman's early-stage performance testing product, working closely with product, design, and platform teams under the guidance of the Product Head
• Write production-grade code across the stack — from time-series storage, backend workers to UI flows to CLI and SDKs.
• Guide and mentor a small team of engineers — setting technical direction and shaping execution.
• Work directly with early users to understand needs, gather feedback, and ship fast iterations.
• Design technically sophisticated systems that feel deceptively simple to use.
• Tackle problems that sit at the intersection of performance engineering, distributed systems, and developer experience.
  
  

What we're looking for

• 6+ years of experience, including time as a founding engineer or early-stage builder in startups.
• Deep comfort working across the stack — ideally with both frontend UI/UX and low-level backend performance/infra.
• A strong grasp of performance engineering concepts: from CPU profiling and memory leaks to throughput bottlenecks and network I/O tuning.
• Experience building developer tools, internal platforms, or observability/performance products.
• The ability to move fast in ambiguity — defining direction while staying open to change.
• A product mindset: you care not just about shipping code, but shipping outcomes.
• Bonus: experience with handling of high-volume data, WebAssembly, custom runners, or novel benchmarking techniques.
  
  

Why this role is unique

• You'll own a greenfield opportunity at a scale company — a rare early-stage product with meaningful backing.
• You'll help shape how millions of developers think about performance of software — with the platform and community to make it real.
• You'll work in a high-agency environment where ideas move fast and execution matters more than that.

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, Bangalore, Hyderabad, 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.

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