Senior Engineering Manager - Test Automation, Performance & Monitoring

<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><h3><strong>The Opportunity</strong></h3> <p>The <strong>Test Automation, Performance Monitoring</strong> team at Postman engineers the backbone of API reliability. We help organizations build large scale distributed systems reliably, allowing them to move fast without breaking things. From simulating massive load spikes to continuous production synthetics, our suite empowers developers to proactively detect regressions and honor SLA commitments. By strengthening Postman’s enterprise ecosystem, we provide the confidence needed to run the world's most mission-critical APIs.</p> <h3><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Understand the vision and the bigger picture of Postman and ensure the team fully understands and appreciates how their work fits into the larger scheme of things.</li> <li>Grow and develop teams, drive conversations with the engineers on topics such as career development, and align their growth with the long term vision and wider business needs.</li> <li>Own drive the engineering/technical strategy for the team, deliver business-critical initiatives in a specified timeline and actively contribute towards the product roadmap to drive the maximum impact for Postman by defining the team’s vision, mission, strategy.</li> <li>Participate in the end-to-end recruiting process, hiring, on-boarding exceptional engineering talent.</li> <li>Define, measure own key metrics for the performance of your and your team’s functional areas.</li> <li>Identify broader problems (Product features, End User Experience, Technology Business), provide multi-quarter roadmaps to the team, embrace constraints and prioritise effectively by working with stakeholders leadership.</li> <li>Collaborate Partner with peers in Product, Design Engineering to craft the best building blocks, guidelines, standards, evolve the team’s vision, mission strategy.</li> <li>Be well-versed in S/W architecture and design. Be ready to be a part of design reviews ( code reviews) and ensure the right decisions are made across the development lifecycle (Both front end and back-end). Raise the bar for engineering standards, tooling and processes.</li> <li>You are responsible for the End User Experience, Performance, Security High availability of the product and will work towards 99.99 availability.</li> <li>Be the custodian of operational customer excellence when it comes to on-calls/incidents/performance/bugs/UX-issues.</li> <li>Provide measurable OKRs for the team and promote a culture of real-time employee feedback.</li> <li>Regularly recognise and celebrate individual engineers’ achievements, both big and small, while emphasising the importance of team success.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>About You</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science-related field or equivalent practical experience</li> <li>Min. 7 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS).</li> <li>3 years of experience in a technical leadership role, ... (truncated, view full listing at source)