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Senior Platform Engineer

Mintlify· Engineering
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San Francisco$190k - $265kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Platform Engineer responsible for owning critical systems from architecture through production, setting technical direction, improving developer velocity, and scaling Mintlify's platform.

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 compute, databases, queues, caching, and edge systems as 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.

Qualifications

  • You have at least 4 years of professional software development experience.
  • Platform expertise: 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.
  • Plus: Experience with AWS, MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, and Node.js.

Skills

Required:Software development experiencecloud infrastructure / infrastructure as codeLeadership / mentoring
Nice to have:AWSMongoDBPostgresRedisNode.js

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity
  • 20 days paid time off every year
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • monthly wellness stipend
  • 100% employee coverage for Health, Dental, Vision
  • Commute stipend to help get you to and from work
  • Free lunch and dinners
  • Annual team offsite (previously went to Alaska, Hawaii, Jackson Hole)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Mintlify

The intelligent documentation platform

The best developer companies (think Stripe, Twilio, MongoDB) have effective and user-centric documentation at their backbone. Mintlify helps any company achieve the documentation they need effortlessly, so that they can focus on building what they do best.

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