Postman engineering structure: why foundation teams exist and how we are envisioning their future — In today’s internet age in which companies reach audiences with incredible ease, the ability to move even faster gives an edge. Organizational structure is one of the many levers that can be used to attain the speed that we all crave, and so it plays a critical role in a…

An effective hiring process is one of the most crucial parts of scaling an organization. Especially when a company scales at least 10 times its size, it needs to figure out how to evolve various processes and practices while still staying true to its values. Postman has always been committed…

Designing a team structure for scalability, efficiency, innovation, and communication — The structure of a team is crucial to its success. Structure helps us determine the various communication patterns that enable a team to contribute to the organization’s overall growth. In this blog post, we’re going to talk about the structure of Postman’s data team, which includes our data engineers and…

A story from the Postman Data team about decentralization, breaking down silos, and sublinear scaling — The world has more data than we know what to do with. As of 2020, the globally generated data volume has reached 40 zettabytes (i.e., 40 billion terabytes). Add to that massive volume the fact that data has also, in recent years, come to be seen as an immensely valuable…