Senior Engineer, Messaging Platform

Overview

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 offic

What you'll do

• Some of the things you'll work on include: Reimagining the platform to support agentic, event-driven notification workflows.
• Designing backend systems that enable contextual notifications triggered by agents, workflows, and product events.
• Building reliable platform primitives for triggering, routing, delivery, retries, deduplication, rate limiting, user preferences, and notification lifecycle management.
• Partnering closely with teams building Agents and AI-powered experiences to understand their needs and translate them into scalable platform capabilities.
• Improving the developer experience through well-designed APIs, self-serve tooling, documentation, and integration workflows.
• Expanding observability across the entire notification lifecycle-understanding what triggered a notification, why it was sent, how it was delivered, and whether it succeeded.
• Ensuring the platform is designed with reliability and user trust at its core, minimising issues such as duplicate sends, stale notifications, noisy experiences, and incorrect targeting.
• Collaborating across infrastructure, product, design, support, and platform teams to deliver a seamless notification experience for both users and internal developers.

Requirements

• A collaborative mindset and experience driving alignment across teams with different priorities.
• A preference for simple, reliable solutions over unnecessary complexity.
• Strong communication skills and a sense of ownership that helps move ambiguous projects from idea to production.
• Curiosity about AI and agentic product experiences, and how infrastructure needs to evolve to support them.
• And, ideally, a good sense of humour, we appreciate people who enjoy what they do.
• 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.

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