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title: "Senior Platform Engineer"
company: "Mintlify"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/mintlify"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/mintlify-senior-platform-engineer-a8a9eaf7-a819-45d9-86a6-9a95a08df7e0"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mintlify/2e61e198-fb04-4de8-b786-3038dc0a5934"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: senior
role: devops-infrastructure
region: united-states
skills: ["aws", "mongodb", "nodejs", "postgres", "redis", "salesforce"]
salary: "$190,000–$265,000 per year"
date_posted: 2026-09-20T02:02:08.230Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-20T02:18:55.475Z
---

# Senior Platform Engineer

**Mintlify** · San Francisco

Salary: $190,000–$265,000 per year

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mintlify/2e61e198-fb04-4de8-b786-3038dc0a5934

## About Mintlify

Self-updating documentation for startups, enterprises, and agents.

## About 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:[How we eliminated cold starts for 72M monthly page views with edge caching](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/page-speed-improvements)

- [How we built a virtual filesystem for our Assistant](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-we-built-a-virtual-filesystem-for-our-assistant)

- 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)

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