Senior Engineering Manager, API Catalog

Manage, coach, and grow a team of experienced engineers, some of whom hold institutional knowledge that predates you. The work is surfacing gaps and raising the bar, then letting senior engineers own the fix.

Hire deliberately as the team grows, and set a clear technical bar in the process.

Set explicit goals, give direct feedback, and keep the team's work legible to the rest of the organization.

Reduce single-owner concentration on critical systems. Spread context deliberately rather than letting it pool in one person.

This deserves its own section because it is the largest determinant of whether this role succeeds.

Most of what the catalog ships depends on teams you don't manage — specification tooling, the API client, the integrations and ecosystem teams that own provider connectivity, and shared platform services. You'll need to secure commitments, sequence around other teams' plans, and unblock reviews without escalating every time.

Own the seams: define the contracts between the catalog and its dependencies clearly enough that both sides can move independently.

Be honest and early about which commitments are genuinely at the mercy of another team's roadmap, and bring options rather than only the blocker.

Drive architecture and execution across ingestion, federation, the service model, and the reporting and deployment data layers, with correctness, multi-tenant isolation, and cost-per-tenant as design constraints rather than afterthoughts.

Set the quality bar for reporting accuracy and build the measurement to know whether you're meeting it. A number a customer can't reconcile is worse than no number.

Treat on-prem and self-managed deployments as a first-class variant of every connector, not a port.

Hold the line on engineering fundamentals — design review, testing, safe staged rollout, and instrumentation of the team's own services.

Own the API Catalog engineering roadmap and its tradeoffs, balancing enterprise commitments, connector breadth, and debt in systems that predate the current product direction.

Break large initiatives into milestones that ship incrementally and can be evaluated on the way. Several of this team's initiatives will mature beyond a single quarter; plan accordingly.

Own production reliability and the support burden, and treat recurring toil as a design problem rather than a staffing one.

API gateway technologies and cloud provider control-plane APIs (AWS, GCP, Azure), plus Kubernetes.

CI/CD systems and developer workflow tooling — you understand what it takes for a team to accept a new gate in their pipeline.

Analytical datastores supporting customer-facing reporting (ClickHouse or similar), including the operational reality of them.

Event-driven and asynchronous API technologies, particularly Kafka.

Governance, audit, or compliance reporting for enterprise buyers.

The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $280,000 to $320,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.

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.

At Postman we value in person collaboration. We are in office 5 days a week for all roles based out of our hubs in San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Austin, New York City, Tokyo and London. For roles based in Bangalore, employees currently work in the office three days a week and will transition to five days per week by the end of the year. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce, leadership team, and peers. The benefits of our in office model will be shared knowledge, brainstorming sessions, communication, and building trust in-person that cannot be replicated via zoom.

At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency and honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.

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