# Senior Platform Engineer **Company:** [Mintlify](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/mintlify) **Location:** San Francisco **Work mode:** On-site **Seniority:** Senior **Employment type:** Full Time **Salary:** USD 190K–265K/yr **Category:** Software **Department:** Other **Listed:** 2026-09-20 [View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/mintlify/senior-platform-engineer-2e61e198-fb04-4de8-b786-3038dc0a5934) ## What you'll do - Architect and operate critical platform infrastructure and tooling - Improve developer velocity: build, test, deploy, migrations - Scale compute, databases, queues, caching, edge systems - Enhance observability, incident response, reduce on-call toil - Review designs, set standards, mentor engineers ## What you need - 4+ yrs professional software development experience - Deep cloud infrastructure, IaC, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability - Led critical infrastructure projects from architecture to production - Strong product intuition and developer experience focus - Experience mentoring engineers and improving team practices ## Job description ### **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 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) ## Other open roles at Mintlify - [Head of Digital Customer Success](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/mintlify/head-of-digital-customer-success-935d66a2-9f02-4360-a46f-43399fdac23e) — San Francisco - [Account Manager](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/mintlify/account-manager-d728c142-6a0d-49cb-b707-6a85483d55ab) — San Francisco - [Sales Development Representative](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/mintlify/sales-development-representative-e532ef79-c441-4e7c-8a32-f95300f6d3cc) — San Francisco - [Head of Sales](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/mintlify/head-of-sales-703503cc-419a-4012-8f81-0533022797cb) — San Francisco - [Head of Engineering](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/mintlify/head-of-engineering-f831033a-5dec-4885-9f0d-767f0979c824) — San Francisco --- *Source: [Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com), the job board for space, defense, AI, robotics and frontier-tech companies.*