Head of Engineering, Infrastructure & SRE
Postman · San Francisco, California, United States ·
- Seniority
- C level
- Category
- SRE
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Company size
- 1000+
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Lead Postman’s cloud-agnostic infrastructure and SRE teams to keep the API platform reliable at scale (~80k req/s) while enabling autonomous engineering across global offices.
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.
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. In addition to infrastructure, you'll own the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) function at Postman, setting the standards and practices that keep the platform reliable at scale. You'll work closely with engineering managers, product managers, and platform teams to drive the technical roadmap for our cloud agnostic infrastructure and reliability practices, ensuring we can support a large and rapidly growing engineering organization.
If you're passionate about building resilient, scalable infrastructure, have a proven track record of leading distributed engineering teams, and thrive in fast-paced environments where your decisions have company-wide impact, we want you on our team!
You are a seasoned infrastructure and reliability leader with deep technical expertise and a track record of building and managing high-performing, distributed infrastructure and SRE teams. You've owned large-scale cloud agnostic environments and the reliability practices that keep them running, and know how to balance the demands of keeping the lights on with investing in architectural improvements that compound over time. You understand that great infrastructure and reliability engineering are ultimately about enabling teams to move fast independently and with confidence.
The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $290,000 to $340,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
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 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. 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. 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.
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.
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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