Senior Platform Engineer

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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