Engineering Manager

Overview

Lead Postman's India-based Cloud Platform engineering team as its local engineering manager, combining people management with hands-on technical oversight and working closely with the US and Europe teams.

What you'll do

• Manage, mentor, and coach the India-based Cloud Platform team, helping each person grow technically and professionally.
• Make sure the team is informed, prioritized, and working at full capacity on the work that matters most.
• Set clear goals, give regular feedback, and build a culture of respect, ownership, and accountability.
• Hire and onboard new engineers as the team grows.
• Foster psychological safety and strong collaboration across time zones.
• Provide architectural oversight for the team's projects, reviewing designs and holding a high engineering bar.
• Guide the team on infrastructure work across Kubernetes, Cluster API, Argo, Helm, Crossplane, service mesh (Istio), AWS, and Azure.
• Roll up your sleeves when needed to unblock the team and keep quality high.
• Partner with platform, security, and product engineering teams to make sure infrastructure decisions line up with company goals.
• Lead the infrastructure projects already in flight and own the backlog, breaking complex initiatives into clear milestones and delivering on time.
• Work with the TPM to keep roadmap, priorities, and dependencies clear.
• Spot and clear roadblocks early, working across teams to minimize impact.
• Drive adoption of the platform across Postman's engineering teams, helping them move faster and operate autonomously.
• Support engineering teams with KTLO operations, including on-call, incident response, and operational health.
• Reduce toil through automation and learn from incidents with blameless postmortems.
• Be the main point of contact for the Cloud Platform team with other India-based engineering leaders.
• Partner with the US and Europe teams on priorities, handoffs, and shared goals.
• Communicate clearly on system health, risks, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering.
• 3+ years in an engineering management role.
• Experience managing and growing engineering teams, ideally working with distributed teams across time zones.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Cluster API, Argo, Helm, and Crossplane in large-scale production environments.
• Experience with service mesh technologies, including Istio.
• Experience with both AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with KTLO and operational practices, including on-call, incident management, and SLIs/SLOs.
• Strong architectural judgment, with the ability to review designs and guide technical decisions.
• Experience supporting a large engineering organization with many product teams and services at significant traffic scale.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex infrastructure topics to technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience with GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code at scale.
• Familiarity with FinOps and cloud cost optimization.
• Prior experience at a SaaS or API-focused product company.
• A passion for developer experience and building platforms that engineers love to use.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Work mode: In office three days a week, transitioning to five days per week by the end of the year.