Senior Platform Engineer

Mintlify•San Francisco, CA

3d•$190,000 - $265,000

About The Position

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. You’ll lead the development of the systems that run Mintlify, taking ambiguous platform problems from first principles to production. You’ll solve technically ambitious infrastructure problems alongside a team that values craft, speed, and thoughtful execution. 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.

Requirements

At least 4 years of professional software development experience.
Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and operating large-scale production software.
Led critical infrastructure projects from architecture through production.
Make thoughtful tradeoffs across reliability, developer velocity, performance, security, and cost.
Strong product intuition and care about the developer experience created by the systems you build.
Comfortable working across infrastructure and application code to solve problems completely.
Experience mentoring engineers, sharing technical knowledge, and improving practices across a team.

Nice To Haves

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

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.