Senior Engineer, Performance Testing and Automation Monitoring
PostmanCupertino, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States$220k – $240kPosted 23 February 2026
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<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>Who Are We?</strong></h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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>
<p>P.S: We highly recommend reading <a href="https://api-first-world.com/">The "API-First World" graphic novel</a> to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.</p></div><h2><strong>About the Team</strong></h2>
<p>The Performance Automation and Monitoring team is redefining how developers test and validate performance at Postman. We build enterprise-grade performance, automation, and monitoring platforms, and are pioneering Agentic AI–driven testing that allows developers to create performance and automation tests without writing code—directly impacting customer trust and paid adoption.</p>
<h2><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h2>
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<p>Design and build scalable, distributed performance testing infrastructure</p>
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<p>Develop Agentic AI–powered systems that enable no-code/low-code performance and automation testing</p>
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<p>Partner with AI platform teams to define agent workflows, abstractions, and guardrails</p>
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<p>Integrate performance testing, automation, and monitoring into a unified quality platform</p>
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<p>Collaborate with product, frontend, and platform teams across the US and India</p>
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<p>Help make performance a default, trusted signal in the development and release lifecycle</p>
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<h2><strong>About You</strong></h2>
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<li>6-8 years experience as Software Engineer</li>
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<p>Have strong experience building distributed backend systems at scale</p>
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<p>Have worked on performance testing, reliability, automation, or observability platforms</p>
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<p>Are excited about applying Agentic AI to improve developer workflows</p>
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<p>Enjoy translating complex systems into simple, powerful developer experiences</p>
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<p>Are comfortable owning systems end to end and working with distributed teams</p>
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<p>The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $220,000 to $240,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. </p><div class="content-conclusion"><h2 data-renderer-start-pos="4036"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">What Else?</strong></h2>
<p data-renderer-start-pos="4048">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. </p>
<p data-renderer-start-pos="4048">At Postman, we embrace a hybrid work model. For all roles based out of San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Austin, Tokyo, Bangalore, Hyderabad, London, and New York, employees are expected to come into the office 3-days a week. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on balancing flexibility ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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