Senior Platform Engineer

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Flexible work culture
• 20 days paid time off every year
• Health, dental, vision
• 401k or RRSP
• Free lunch and dinners
• $700/year work setup stipend
• $200/month wellness stipend
• Annual team offsite
• Unlimited free mints

Preferred experience

• Plus: Experience with parts of our stack, including AWS, MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, and Node.js
• 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 led critical infrastructure projects from architecture through production
• 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 experience mentoring engineers, sharing technical knowledge, and improving practices across a team
• You have at least 4 years of professional software development experience