Senior Platform Engineer

About Mintlify

The intelligent knowledge platform

The role

# **Why Mintlify?**We're on a mission to empower builders.- **Massive reach:** Our docs platform serves 100 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 20,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Microsoft, PayPal, Spotify, Coinbase, X, and over 20% of the last YC batch.- **Small team, huge impact:** We recently passed 65 employees and raised a $45 million Series B led by A16Z and Salesforce Ventures. Each new hire has a huge impact on shaping the company's trajectory. - **Culture of** [**slope over y-intercept**](https://mattrickard.com/hire-slope-not-intercept) **:** We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities.We grew in value faster than headcount and we’re looking to align the two quickly.As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll own critical systems from architecture through production. You’ll set technical direction, raise the quality bar, and help engineers build and operate software faster and more reliably.# **What you'll work on here**You’ll lead the development of the systems that run Mintlify, taking ambiguous platform problems from first principles to production.- **Own critical platform systems:** Architect and operate the infrastructure, services, and tooling that Mintlify’s engineers and products depend on.- **Set the direction for developer velocity:** Improve how the team builds, tests, deploys, and operates software, leading the migrations needed to get there.- **Scale the platform for what’s next:** Evolve our compute, databases, queues, caching, and edge systems as our products and customer base grow.- **Drive operational excellence:** Improve observability, incident response, and operational automation while eliminating sources of on-call toil.- **Raise the engineering bar:** Review designs, establish technical standards, mentor engineers, and make the broader team more effective.# **You’ll have the chance to lead projects like:**- Re-architecting the Mintlify backend to support new levels of updates and traffic.- Supporting multi-cloud deployments across regional and customer-managed environments.- Building AI-first developer tools and redesigning APIs for agent-driven traffic.# **What you bring to the table**- You have at least 4 years of professional software development experience.- **Platform expertise:** You have deep experience with cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and operating large-scale production software.- You have led critical infrastructure projects from architecture through production.- You make thoughtful tradeoffs across reliability, developer velocity, performance, security, and cost.- You have strong product intuition and care about the developer experience created by the systems you build.- You are comfortable working across infrastructure and application code to solve problems completely.- You have experience mentoring engineers, sharing technical knowledge, and improving practices across a team.- **Plus:** Experience with parts of our stack, including AWS, MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, and Node.js.# **Why you should join our engineering team**- You’ll solve technically ambitious infrastructure problems alongside a team that values craft, speed, and thoughtful execution. Here’s a taste of what the team has built:- Engineers here are product builders with high agency; you’ll drive change and have a voice in strategic decisions.- You’ll have plenty of heads-down builder time on a small-but-mighty team where the best ideas win.- We’ll find the intersection between what excites you and business priorities. You’ll own projects, ship, and see immediate impact.# **Company Benefits:**- Competitive compensation and equity- 20 days paid time off every year- 401k- $420/month wellness stipend- 100% coverage for Health, dental, vision- Free Ubers to and from work- Free lunch and dinners- Annual team offsite (previously went to Alaska, Hawaii)