About this role
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.
About the Team
Identity and Access Management team is responsible for creating a secure, reliable and seamless Identity Management Platform for all the Postman users. This is the team behind authenticating and authorizing every request that reaches Postman space.
Postman's Identity Interface is the gateway to access a plethora of Postman's services while enabling users to connect with peers to perform work collaboratively. A team of passionate engineers where each day brings new learning.
What You’ll Do
As a member of the IAM team, you will:
• Build and optimize the auth standards and protocols such as OAuth2.0, OIDC, SCIM, SAML and so on.
• Contribute to the development of secure, reliable and scalable IAM platform components.
• Be involved in research areas such as role engineering, session management, and implement standardized formats meeting cross-functional AuthN and AuthZ needs for the platform.
• Contribute to developing APIs and products while working with a cross-functional team of Product Managers, Designers, Support and Product, Quality, Security and Platform Engineers.
• Utilize your technical and domain expertise to help architect the solution and facilitate cross-squad knowledge sharing on best practices.
• Design & build any additional internal tooling required to ease the development & maintenance of the product.
• Contribute to creating a cohesive identity framework for postman.ai , Postman’s forward-looking AI product suite
About You
• You have 5+ years of experience building complex backend or distributed systems at scale.
• Proficient with Javascript, node.js, React.Js, and a good understanding of web fundamentals.
• Good knowledge of Database fundamentals, especially on the performance aspects such as optimizing queries, schema design, indexing, and caching.
• Proven record of building & products from scratch.
• (Bonus) Good understanding of auth products, protocols, and methods ( OAuth, SAML, OIDC etc.)
• You enjoy learning and sharing knowledge within and across teams.
• You have a product-oriented mindset and empathy for the users.
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