Staff Engineer, Product Trust
Postman · Bangalore · 10+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-06-02
Tech stack: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python
About the role
We are looking for an exceptional Staff Engineer to build the next generation of our security offerings in the Postman product. You’ll be accountable for strategy, technical roadmap and architecture of the platform. You’ll work with multiple teams within Identity Engineering overseeing and contributing to delivery and owning critical KPIs such as availability and uptime. Your role involves designing, implementing, and running critical services for the security features in the product. We’re looking for a seasoned individual contributor leader who can work effectively with product management and engineering leaders within the company and build a high quality platform. The ideal candidate is a strategic leader with attention to detail and a relentless drive for quality. They should be comfortable being very hands on and at the same being able to uplevel and provide high level guidance for others to execute. They should mentor senior engineers within the org to grow the next level of engineering leadership. They should also be strong communicators who can influence other leaders. Finally, they should have strong industry knowledge and bring best practices from the broader industry to the Postman’s security and trust offerings. The ideal candidate is also strongly aligned with Responsibilities: - Technical Leadership Provide technical leadership for the architecture and help the teams build highly secure, scalable, reliable and performant systems that can cater to the needs of hundreds of millions of developers - Provide technical leadership to identify dependencies and review key designs to ensure consistency with architecture and support for the business - Lead the team to deliver on multiple projects in collaboration with key stakeholders - Build an operational center of excellence with effective observability, considerations for scale and performance and focus on quality - Be hands on and lead by example Prioritization and Roadmap - Partner with the engineering leaders within the org and product leaders within the company - Help the teams prioritize work and create a balanced roadmap - Collaboration Work closely with senior leadership to drive org design, set and execute the roadmap and influence the strategy - Collaborate with cross functional teams to align on goals, drive engineering initiatives, and create broad organizational impact - Mentorship Be a mentor for senior engineers and help others grow - Build the next level of engineering leadership Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science related field or equivalent practical experience - 10+ years of experience hands on coding and familiarity with common programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS) - 10+ years of engineering experience building end-end back end services - Strong experience with security offerings such as vault store, token scanning, cryptography etc. - Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects with a meaningful impact on the business - Exceptional problem solving, design, and analytical skills - Demonstrated experience designing highly scalable systems - Sense of humor
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science related field or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years of experience hands on coding and familiarity with common programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS)
- 10+ years of engineering experience building end-end back end services
- Strong experience with security offerings such as vault store, token scanning, cryptography etc.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects with a meaningful impact on the business
- Exceptional problem solving, design, and analytical skills
- Demonstrated experience designing highly scalable systems
- Sense of humor
Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership Provide technical leadership for the architecture and help the teams build highly secure, scalable, reliable and performant systems that can cater to the needs of hundreds of millions of developers
- Provide technical leadership to identify dependencies and review key designs to ensure consistency with architecture and support for the business
- Lead the team to deliver on multiple projects in collaboration with key stakeholders
- Build an operational center of excellence with effective observability, considerations for scale and performance and focus on quality
- Be hands on and lead by example Prioritization and Roadmap
- Partner with the engineering leaders within the org and product leaders within the company
- Help the teams prioritize work and create a balanced roadmap Collaboration
- Work closely with senior leadership to drive org design, set and execute the roadmap and influence the strategy
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to align on goals, drive engineering initiatives, and create broad organizational impact
- Mentorship Be a mentor for senior engineers and help others grow
- Build the next level of engineering leadership