<div class="content-intro"><h2>Who Are We?</h2> 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 <a href="https://api-first-world.com/">The "API-First World" graphic novel</a> to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.</div>About the Team : The Identity and Access Management team is responsible for building a secure, reliable, and seamless identity platform for all Postman users. This team owns the systems behind authentication, session management, access control, service accounts, invites, and other foundational identity capabilities that power the product. Postman’s identity layer is a critical part of the product experience. It sits on the path of every authenticated request and enables users, teams, and systems to access Postman securely and collaborate effectively. The team works on a mix of core platform improvements, new product capabilities, and reliability/security investments. What You’ll Do: <ul> <li>Design, build, and evolve backend systems that power Postman’s identity and authentication platform.</li> <li>Own projects end to end: clarify requirements, drive technical design, implement solutions, manage rollout, and support production.</li> <li>Work closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to scope, build, test, and launch new features and platform improvements.</li> <li>Improve system reliability, scalability, observability, and operational readiness for services owned by the team.</li> <li>Make sound technical trade-offs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability in a fast-moving environment.</li> <li>Lead execution for projects involving 2–3 engineers when needed, including task breakdown, technical guidance, and code reviews.</li> <li>Participate in debugging, incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term production fixes.</li> <li>Raise engineering quality by improving test coverage, reviewing designs and code, and advocating for strong software engineering practices.</li> <li>Partner with your manager on roadmap, prioritization, and SLAs for the services you own.</li> <li>Help create a team culture of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement.</li> </ul> About You <ul> <li>You have 5+ years of experience building complex backend or distributed systems at scale.</li> <li>You have experience designing and operating production systems with strong reliability requirements.</li> <li>You are comfortable owning ambiguous problems and driving them from idea to production with minimal supervision.</li> <li>You have experience leading or guiding small groups of engineers on execution.</li> <li>You have strong engineering fundamentals in areas like distributed systems, networking, data modeling, and system design.</li> <li>You write code that is testable, maintainable, and easy to understand.</li> <li>You are comfortable making architectural and implementation trade-offs, and can explain the reasoning clearly.</li> <li>You collaborate well with cross-functional stakeholders and are comfortable respectfully challenging PMs, EMs, and peers when needed.</li> <li>You care about production quality, observability, and operational excellen

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