Why You're a Fit
Job Description
Who Are We?
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 offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman.
P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.
The Opportunity
As an Engineering Manager, AI Infrastructure, you will lead teams building and operating the foundational systems that power AI model post-training, inference, and large-scale data pipelines. You will own the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical AI infrastructure while partnering closely with research, product, and platform leaders to deliver robust, production-grade AI systems.
You will balance technical leadership and people management, guiding architecture and execution while growing a high-performing team in a fast-moving AI environment.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for large-scale, distributed AI infrastructure and services
- Set technical direction and architectural standards for AI post-training, inference, and data pipelines
- Drive performance optimization across GPU/xPU accelerators, networking, storage, and cloud environments
- Own reliability, scalability, and observability for AI workloads, including SLAs, incident response, and capacity planning
- Partner cross-functionally with research, ML, product, and platform teams to define infrastructure requirements and roadmap
- Translate business and research needs into long-term infrastructure strategy and execution plans
- Review designs and code, ensuring high engineering quality, security, and system longevity
- Mentor and develop engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration
About You
- Have experience leading engineering teams building GenAI infrastructure, distributed systems, or high-performance platforms
- Strong background in cloud computing, large-scale distributed systems, and AI/ML infrastructure
- Deep understanding of scaling challenges for AI workloads, including accelerators (GPU/xPU), scheduling, and performance tuning
- Comfortable making architectural tradeoffs across cost, performance, reliability, and velocity
- Proficient in Python, Go, or similar languages, with the ability to guide design and review complex systems
- Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and enjoy collaborating across research and engineering organizations
What Else?
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. We’re building a long-term company with an inclusive culture where everyone can be the best version of themselves.
At Postman, we embrace a hybrid work model. For all roles based out of San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Austin, Tokyo, Bangalore, Hyderabad, London, and New York, employees are expected to come into the office 3-days a week. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on balancing flexibility and collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce, leadership team, and peers. The benefits of our hybrid office model will be shared knowledge, brainstorming sessions, communication, and building trust in-person that cannot be replicated via zoom.
Our Values
At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency and honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.
Equal opportunity
Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.