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Senior Engineer
Cupertino, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States
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On-site
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Full-time
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1mo ago
Compensation
$220,000 - $240,000
Benefits & Perks
•Generous vacation
•Competitive base salary and bonus
•Parental leave
•Team events
•Comprehensive benefits
•Stock options or RSUs
•Parental Leave
Required Skills
Jira
Confluence
Mixpanel
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
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Design and build scalable, distributed performance testing infrastructure
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Develop Agentic AI–powered systems that enable no-code/low-code performance and automation testing
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Partner with AI platform teams to define agent workflows, abstractions, and guardrails
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Integrate performance testing, automation, and monitoring into a unified quality platform
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Collaborate with product, frontend, and platform teams across the US and India
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Help make performance a default, trusted signal in the development and release lifecycle
About You
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6-8 years experience as Software Engineer
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Have strong experience building distributed backend systems at scale
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Have worked on performance testing, reliability, automation, or observability platforms
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Are excited about applying Agentic AI to improve developer workflows
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Enjoy translating complex systems into simple, powerful developer experiences
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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.
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Series DOffers an API platform for developers to design, build, test, and collaborate on APIs.
501-1,000
Employees
San Francisco
Headquarters
$5.6B
Valuation
Reviews
3.8
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Work Life Balance
2.5
Compensation
3.0
Culture
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Career
3.2
Management
2.3
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Pros
Effective API testing and development tool
Team proficiency and workflow efficiency
Functional automation testing capabilities
Cons
Unrealistic project timelines and expectations
Poor management guidance and support
Lack of clear direction from leadership
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$32,355
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4 interviews
Difficulty
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Duration
14-28 weeks
Offer Rate
25%
Experience
Positive 25%
Neutral 25%
Negative 50%
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Application Review
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Recruiter Screen
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Technical Phone Screen
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Take-home Assessment
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Onsite/Virtual Interviews
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