Software Engineer, IAM

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.

The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $150,000 to $190,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.