Postman

Postman

Head of Engineering, Infrastructure & SRE

San Francisco, California, United States · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$290k-$340kDetected 42 days ago
AWSAzureKubernetesHelmCI/CDSite Reliability EngineeringProject ManagementPostmanLoad TestingLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

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About the role

  • Postman is seeking a strategic and results-driven engineering leader who is passionate about cloud agnostic infrastructure, operational excellence, and enabling engineering teams to operate autonomously and build with confidence.
  • As Head of Infrastructure, you'll lead a talented and geographically distributed team of engineers across the SF Bay Area, India, and Europe, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
  • You'll own the infrastructure that underpins one of the world's most widely used API platforms, an environment handling ~80,000 requests per second at the front door, and be responsible for its reliability, scalability, and evolution.

Responsibilities

  • Hire, manage, mentor, and coach a geographically distributed team of infrastructure and SRE engineers across SF Bay Area, India, and Europe, helping them grow both technically and professionally.
  • Drive and uphold a culture of respect, integrity, inclusion, ownership, and accountability within the team.
  • Build a high-performing team with the skills and practices to reliably operate and evolve cloud agnostic infrastructure at scale.
  • Own the architecture and evolution of Postman's cloud agnostic infrastructure, driving improvements that increase reliability, performance, and cost efficiency at scale.
  • Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure improvements across Kubernetes, Cluster API, Argo, Helm, Crossplane, service mesh (Istio), AWS, and Azure environments.
  • Own the SRE function end to end: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, incident management, and reliability engineering practices across the platform.
  • Set the technical direction for how Postman's infrastructure and reliability practices evolve to support a large engineering organization with hundreds of services and dozens of teams, with a focus on enabling product teams to operate autonomously.
  • Partner with platform, security, and product engineering teams to ensure infrastructure and reliability decisions align with broader company goals.
  • building infrastructure and reliability practices that make product engineers faster and more confident.
  • Our frequent and fascinating team-building events will keep you connected, while our donation-matching program can support the causes you care about.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering, with 7+ years in an engineering management or leadership role.
  • Proven experience managing geographically distributed teams across multiple time zones.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Cluster API, Argo, Helm, and Crossplane in large-scale production environments.
  • Experience with service mesh technologies, including Istio.
  • Deep experience with both AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience supporting a large engineering organization: multiple product teams, hundreds of services, high deployment frequency, and significant traffic scale.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex infrastructure and reliability topics for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

  • Experience with GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code at scale.
  • Familiarity with FinOps / cloud cost optimization practices.
  • Prior experience in a SaaS or API-focused product company.
  • Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
  • For roles based in Bangalore, employees currently work in the office three days a week and will transition to five days per week by the end of the year.
  • We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce, leadership team, and peers.
  • We value transparency and honest communication about not only successes, but also failures.
  • Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product.

Skills

  • Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman.

Compensation

  • The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $290,000 to $340,000, plus a competitive equity package.

Benefits

  • The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $290,000 to $340,000, plus a competitive equity package.
  • The benefits of our in office model will be shared knowledge, brainstorming sessions, communication, and building trust in-person that cannot be replicated via zoom.
  • In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision.
  • Set clear goals and provide regular feedback to ensure your team is motivated and aligned with the platform and company vision.

Company info

  • The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded.
  • At Postman we value in person collaboration.
  • We are in office 5 days a week for all roles based out of our hubs in San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Austin, New York City, Tokyo and London.
  • 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.
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