Staff Engineer – Observability Platform

Overview

Staff Engineer on Postman’s Observability team, focused on uncovering complex production behavior and improving observability capabilities across the platform.

What you'll do

• Drive the technical vision and architecture for the observability platform.
• Design and build scalable solutions for metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and operational analytics.
• Investigate complex production issues, find root causes, and drive long-term corrective actions.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve reliability, availability, performance, and operational maturity.
• Establish observability standards, best practices, and instrumentation frameworks.
• Build tooling and automation for faster incident detection, diagnosis, and resolution.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with exposure to distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong expertise in observability domains: monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, telemetry pipelines, and incident management.
• Experience operating large-scale production systems with reliability, scalability, and performance focus.
• Deep understanding of system debugging, root-cause analysis, performance optimization, and production operations.
• Strong programming experience in one or more: Go, Java, Python, Node.js, or similar.
• Experience with observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Honeycomb, or equivalent.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• In-office schedule: for roles in Bangalore, employees work three days a week and transition to five days a week by the end of the year.