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 hereYou’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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
Skills Required
- At least 4 years of professional software development experience
- Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and operating large-scale production software
- Experience leading critical infrastructure projects from architecture through production
- Ability to make tradeoffs across reliability, developer velocity, performance, security, and cost
- Strong product intuition and attention to developer experience
- Ability to work across infrastructure and application code
- Experience mentoring engineers, sharing technical knowledge, and improving team practices
- Experience with AWS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Node.js
Mintlify Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mintlify and has not been reviewed or approved by Mintlify.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, and vision are covered at 100% for employees, with options available for dependents. This comprehensive coverage is consistently highlighted as a core part of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Daily free meals, company‑paid rides to and from the office, a monthly wellness stipend, work‑setup support, and team offsites materially enhance day‑to‑day value. These perks are especially impactful for those working in the San Francisco office.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Compensation includes competitive salary with meaningful equity emphasized across roles. Ownership is positioned as a core component of total rewards at a small, fast‑moving team.
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What We Do
Mintlify's docs platform reaches 50 million developers every year and powers documentation for 10,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Cursor, Coinbase, Scale AI, X, and is the #1 YC product used by other YC companies. With only 28 people today, backed by $22 million in funding, each new hire shapes the company’s trajectory. We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities - we believe in valuing someone's slope over y-intercept.
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