Mintlify
Senior Platform Engineer
San Francisco · Senior
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About the role
- 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.
- WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN OUR ENGINEERING TEAM - You'll solve technically ambitious infrastructure problems alongside a team that values craft, speed, and thoughtful execution.
Requirements
- 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 strong product intuition and care about the developer experience created by the systems you build.
- 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
Nice to have
- Supporting multi-cloud deployments across regional and customer-managed environments.
- You have at least 4 years of professional software development experience.
- You have led critical infrastructure projects from architecture through production.
- You make thoughtful tradeoffs across reliability, developer velocity, performance, security, and cost.
- 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.
Compensation
- Annual team offsite (previously went to Alaska, Hawaii, Jackson Hole)
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity
- 20 days paid time off every year
- monthly wellness stipend
- 100% employee coverage for Health, Dental, Vision
- Commute stipend to help get you to and from work
Company info
- 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.
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