Postman
Senior Engineering Manager, API Catalog
$280K–$320K
San Francisco, CA, US · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams.
About the job
Lead engineering for Postman’s API Catalog, scaling it into an enterprise system of record for API discovery, federation, governance, and reporting.
What you'll do
- Manage, coach, and grow a senior engineering team; hire and set clear goals and technical standards.
- Own the API Catalog engineering roadmap, architecture, delivery, reliability, and production support, including work that depends on teams outside your organization.
- Scale API ingestion, gateway federation, governance evidence, event-driven API support, and reporting while maintaining accuracy, security, and reliability.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in software engineering and 5+ years leading engineering teams.
- Personally designed and debugged a technically challenging system; experience scaling a validated product from 1→10.
- Production ownership of a broad enterprise integration surface and demonstrated ability to ship work dependent on teams you do not manage.
- Experience leading senior-heavy teams, multi-tenant enterprise SaaS with on-prem or self-managed infrastructure and compliance requirements, and full lifecycle ownership through production support.
Nice to have
- API gateway technologies, cloud provider control-plane APIs (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, or developer workflow tooling.
- Analytical datastores for customer-facing reporting, event-driven technologies such as Kafka, or enterprise governance, audit, or compliance reporting.
Pay
$280,000 to $320,000 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, Kafka
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