Self-updating documentation for startups, enterprises, and agents. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.
About the role
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.
What they're looking for
- 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
More about this role
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.
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:...
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