Senior Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

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: 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.

🏢 About 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: We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities.

🎯 The Role

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.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• 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.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 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.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with parts of our stack, including AWS, MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, and Node.js.

🎁 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)

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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