Postman is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Identity and Access Management (IAM) team. This team is responsible for creating a secure, reliable, and seamless Identity Management Platform for all Postman users. The IAM team is behind authenticating and authorizing every request that reaches Postman space. Postman's Identity Interface is the gateway to access a plethora of Postman's services while enabling users to connect with peers to perform work collaboratively.
What this role involves:
Contribute to the development of secure, reliable, and scalable IAM platform components.
Build and optimize the auth standards and protocols such as OAuth2.0, OIDC, SCIM, SAML and so on.
Involve in the research areas such as role engineering, session management and implement the standardized formats meeting cross-functional AuthN and AuthZ needs for the platform.
Empower the product with seamless, secure and reliable methods of enterprise onboarding by enabling broader integration areas of user and team management.
Contribute to the development of APIs and products while working with a cross-functional team of Product Managers, Designers, Support and Product, Quality, Security and Platform Engineers.
Requirements:
3-6 years of experience developing complex, distributed software applications at Postman’s scale
Proficient with Javascript, node.js (or other backend technologies) having familiarity with developing and integrating with microservices.
Strong understanding of web fundamentals.
Strong knowledge of Database fundamentals especially on the performance aspects such as optimising queries, schema design, indexing, caching.
Good understanding of auth products, protocols, methods ( OAuth, SAML, OIDC etc.) (Bonus)
Previous experience with User/Team management, role engineering, access control. (Bonus)
You enjoy learning and sharing knowledge within and across teams.
You have a product oriented mindset and empathy for the users.
Postman is the leading API platform, empowering over 40 million developers and 500,000 organizations globally, including a vast majority of the Fortune 500. Headquartered in San Francisco with a significant presence in Bangalore, Postman simplifies the API lifecycle, fostering collaboration and enabling the creation of superior APIs with increased speed. The company's mission is to advance the API-first world, offering tools and resources for developers and professionals to design, build, and manage APIs effectively.