The Opportunity

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join our Observability team. This role is ideal for a highly technical engineer who thrives on uncovering the truth behind complex system behaviors, diagnosing difficult production challenges, and driving platform-wide improvements.

As a Staff Engineer, you will operate as a force multiplier across engineering teams, helping Postman build world-class observability capabilities while improving reliability, performance, and developer productivity. You will partner closely with Infrastructure, Platform, Product, Security, and Data teams to identify systemic issues, establish operational excellence, and ensure engineering teams have the visibility they need to operate at scale.
What You'll Do
- Drive the technical vision and architecture for Postmans observability platform.
- Design and build scalable solutions for metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and operational analytics.
- Investigate complex production issues, identify root causes, and drive long-term corrective actions.




- Partner with engineering teams to improve service reliability, availability, performance, and operational maturity.
- Establish observability standards, best practices, and instrumentation frameworks across the company.
- Build tooling and automation that enable faster incident detection, diagnosis, and resolution.
- Leverage telemetry data to uncover performance bottlenecks, capacity risks, and reliability gaps.
- Drive cross-functional initiatives focused on platform health, operational excellence, and engineering productivity.
- Mentor senior engineers and help raise the technical bar across the organization.
What Were Looking For
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant exposure to distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
- Robust expertise in observability domains including monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, telemetry pipelines, and incident management.
- Experience operating large-scale prod

📌 Staff Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Postman
📍 Bengaluru