# Senior Platform Engineer at Mintlify

Senior Platform Engineer at Mintlify in San Francisco. Full-time, paying $190k–$265k. Posted September 20, 2026.

- Company: Mintlify
- Location: San Francisco
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $190k–$265k
- Experience: 4+ years
- Posted: 2026-09-20
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mintlify/2e61e198-fb04-4de8-b786-3038dc0a5934/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/senior-platform-engineer-mintlify-a9cnxf

## 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:** 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**

- **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)