Software Engineer, Authorization

About the role

Identity and Access Management team is responsible for creating a secure, reliable and seamless Identity Management Platform for all the Postman users. This is the team behind authenticating and authorizing every request that reaches Postman space. Postman's Identity Interface is the gateway to access a plethora of Postman's services while enabling users to connect with peers to perform work collaboratively. A team of passionate engineers where each day brings new learning. The Authorization team is part of Identity and Access Management within Postman's Core Platform Engineering group. We power access management across every Postman product and service. As the agentic era reshapes how access works, we focus on building strong governance for both humans and AI agents.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain features, improve performance and quality of Postman's products
• Work on improving and building access control systems.
• Work with the manager for the roadmap and SLAs for the micro-services that you own.
• Perform code reviews and advocate better practices for software engineering by mentoring and encouraging others around you to build a quality product.
• Interact with Product, Design and Engineering teams to spec, build, test and deliver new features.
• About You
• You have at least 3 years of experience developing complex, distributed software applications at scale.
• You have experience with high-level programming languages - e.g. Node.js, Python, Java, or Go - and are ready to pick up and learn new languages based on need.
• Strong experience with distributed systems and cloud computing
• Has a point of view and is comfortable and prior experience in collaborating and respectfully challenging other stakeholders, such as PM, EM etc.
• You write testable, maintainable code that's easy to understand.
• You use AI in your day-to-day activities, such as writing code and documentation, but more importantly, you validate AI-written code and artifacts.
• You have curiosity about how things work and to learn new things.
• Good written and verbal communication.

Requirements

• Previous experience working with Identity and Access Management systems.
• Alignment with our Values .
• What Else?
• Our Values
• 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, sexu

Benefits

Additional Information

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.

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