Senior Engineer - Fabric Gateway
Postman
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
Product EngineeringSystem DesignObservabilityKubernetesPostmanOAuthDesign PatternsgRPCHelmJWT
Key highlights
- 6+ years of infrastructure/platform engineering experience required.
- Must be proficient in Go and have deep systems design expertise.
- Full medical coverage and flexible PTO provided.
- Pay‑on‑performance compensation model.
- Founding‑level work on a brand‑new API gateway product.
- In‑office work required 5 days/week at hub locations.
Role overview
Postman is building the Fabric Gateway, a brand‑new API gateway product that will serve as the policy‑driven control plane for AI agents, tools, and services. This greenfield, 0‑to‑1 engineering role is on a small, high‑ownership team designing and shipping foundational infrastructure that will power secure, scalable agent interactions at the enterprise level.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own critical systems of the Fabric Gateway from the ground up — this is founding-level engineering work.
- Lead architecture decisions for distributed systems that need to be fast, reliable, and correct at scale — handling high request volumes across a diverse ecosystem of services.
- Drive technical direction and make high-leverage decisions; you'll be setting patterns the rest of the team follows.
- Own observability, performance, and reliability end-to-end — SLA targets, monitoring, and on-call are your personal responsibility, not a handoff.
- Collaborate closely with the EM and PM to scope milestones, prioritize ruthlessly, and iterate toward Early Access and GA.
- Participate in design and code reviews, raise engineering standards, and mentor fellow engineers.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building infrastructure-level or platform software in cloud-native or SaaS environments.
- Proven 0-to-1 track record — you've taken something from whiteboard to production and operated it at scale.
- Deep systems design expertise: you've built distributed systems that handle high throughput, stay resilient under load, and scale horizontally without breaking operational simplicity.
- Proficiency in Go. Strong fundamentals in systems programming and performance-sensitive code are essential.
- Solid grasp of security primitives: mTLS, JWT, OAuth 2.0, RBAC/ABAC.
- High ownership mindset — reliability, performance, and security are your problem, not someone else's ticket.
- Strong communication skills; comfortable driving clarity in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
Nice to have
- Prior experience building or extending platform or gateway products.
- Familiarity with modern protocol ecosystems (HTTP/2, gRPC, WebSockets).
- Kubernetes-native deployment experience: Helm, operators, CRDs.
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure or developer tooling projects.
- Experience working in an early-stage 0-to-1 environment inside a larger company.
Benefits
- Pay-on-performance philosophy.
- Flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team.
- Full medical coverage.
- Flexible PTO.
- Wellness reimbursement.
- Monthly lunch stipend.
- Wellness programs supporting physical and mental health.
- Frequent team‑building events.
- Donation‑matching program.
- Inclusive culture encouraging personal growth.
Additional details
- 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.
- Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore.
- Privately held with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners.
- Recommendation to read "The \"API-First World\"" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and vision.
- Fabric Gateway is a brand‑new product serving as the policy‑driven control plane governing how agents connect to APIs, services, and other agents at scale.
- The Fabric Gateway team is a small, high‑ownership team building a greenfield infrastructure product.
- The role involves building from scratch and defining product architecture for years to come.
- In‑office collaboration model: 5 days/week for hubs in San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Austin, New York City, Tokyo, London; Bangalore transitioning to 5 days/week by year‑end.
- Postman's values include curiosity, transparency, goal‑focused work, and an inclusive culture.
- Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer with a non‑discriminatory hiring policy.