Engineering Manager

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.

Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform (Bangalore)

About the Role

Our Cloud Platform team builds and runs the infrastructure that Postman’s engineering organization depends on. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager in Bangalore to lead our India-based Cloud Platform engineers. You’ll be the local engineering leader for the team, combining people management with hands-on technical oversight. You’ll partner closely with the US and Europe teams.

What You’ll Do

Team Leadership & Development

• Manage, mentor, and coach the India-based Cloud Platform team, helping each person grow technically and professionally.
• Make sure the team is informed, prioritized, and working at full capacity on the work that matters most.
• Set clear goals, give regular feedback, and build a culture of respect, ownership, and accountability.
• Hire and onboard new engineers as the team grows.
• Foster psychological safety and strong collaboration across time zones.

Technical Leadership

• Provide architectural oversight for the team’s projects, reviewing designs and holding a high engineering bar.
• Guide the team on infrastructure work across Kubernetes, Cluster API, Argo, Helm, Crossplane, service mesh (Istio), AWS, and Azure.
• Roll up your sleeves when needed to unblock the team and keep quality high.
• Partner with platform, security, and product engineering teams to make sure infrastructure decisions line up with company goals.

Delivery & Project Leadership

• Lead the infrastructure projects already in flight and own the backlog, breaking complex initiatives into clear milestones and delivering on time.
• Work with the TPM to keep roadmap, priorities, and dependencies clear.
• Spot and clear roadblocks early, working across teams to minimize impact.

Platform Adoption & KTLO

• Drive adoption of the platform across Postman’s engineering teams, helping them move faster and operate autonomously.
• Support engineering teams with KTLO operations, including on-call, incident response, and operational health.
• Reduce toil through automation and learn from incidents with blameless postmortems.

Collaboration & Communication

• Be the main point of contact for the Cloud Platform team with other India-based engineering leaders.
• Partner with the US and Europe teams on priorities, handoffs, and shared goals.
• Communicate clearly on system health, risks, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

About You

You’re a hands-on engineering leader who has led infrastructure or platform teams and can go deep technically when it matters. You’ve worked in large-scale production environments, and you know how to balance keeping the lights on with investing in improvements that compound over time. You care about enabling product teams to move fast and independently, and you’re comfortable being the local leader for a team that works closely with colleagues across time zones.

Must Have Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering, with 3+ years in an engineering management role.
• Experience managing and growing engineering teams, ideally working with distributed teams across 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.
• Experience with both AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with KTLO and operational practices, including on-call, incident management, and SLIs/SLOs.
• Strong architectural judgment, with the ability to review designs and guide technical decisions.
• Experience supporting a large engineering organization with many product teams and services at significant traffic scale.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex infrastructure topics to technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code at scale.
• Familiarity with FinOps and cloud cost optimization.
• Prior experience at a SaaS or API-focused product company.
• A passion for developer experience and building platforms that engineers love to use.

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 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.

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.