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Head of Engineering, Infrastructure & SRE
Postman INC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
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- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 16 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 4 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- Last confirmed live 23 days agoWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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The US Department of Labor certified 16 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 4 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 Postman is seeking a strategic and results-driven engineering leader who is passionate about cloud agnostic infrastructure, operational excellence, and enabling engineering teams to operate autonomously and build with confidence. As Head of Infrastructure, you'll lead a talented and geographically distributed team of engineers across the SF Bay Area, India, and Europe, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement. You'll own the infrastructure that underpins one of the world's most widely used API platforms, an environment handling ~80,000 requests per second at the front door, and be responsible for its reliability, scalability, and evolution. In addition to infrastructure, you'll own the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) function at Postman, setting the standards and practices that keep the platform reliable at scale. You'll work closely with engineering managers, product managers, and platform teams to drive the technical roadmap for our cloud agnostic infrastructure and reliability practices, ensuring we can support a large and rapidly growing engineering organization. If you're passionate about building resilient, scalable infrastructure, have a proven track record of leading distributed engineering teams, and thrive in fast-paced environments where your decisions have company-wide impact, we want you on our team! What You'll Do Team Leadership & Development • Hire, manage, mentor, and coach a geographically distributed team of infrastructure and SRE engineers across SF Bay Area, India, and Europe, helping them grow both technically and professionally. • Drive and uphold a culture of respect, integrity, inclusion, ownership, and accountability within the team. • Set clear goals and provide regular feedback to ensure your team is motivated and aligned with the platform and company vision. • Build a high-performing team with the skills and practices to reliably operate and evolve cloud agnostic infrastructure at scale. • Foster psychological safety and cross-regional collaboration across time zones. Technical Leadership • Own the architecture and evolution of Postman's cloud agnostic infrastructure, driving improvements that increase reliability, performance, and cost efficiency at scale. • Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure improvements across Kubernetes, Cluster API, Argo, Helm, Crossplane, service mesh (Istio), AWS, and Azure environments. • Own the SRE function end to end: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, incident management, and reliability engineering practices across the platform. • Set the technical direction for how Postman's infrastructure and reliability practices evolve to support a large engineering organization with hundreds of services and dozens of teams, with a focus on enabling product teams to operate autonomously. • Partner with platform, security, and product engineering teams