Senior Platform Engineer: Own Core Infra & Accelerate Dev Velocity

Mintlify; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20 days paid time off every year

401k

Wellness stipend $420/month

Health, dental, vision covered 100%

Uber rides to and from work

Free lunch and dinners

Annual team offsite

Job summary

Mintlify is building a scalable docs platform for developers. As a Senior Platform Engineer you’ll own critical systems from architecture through production, set technical direction, and raise the quality bar to help engineers move faster and more reliably.

You’ll lead projects across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and multi-cloud deployments, mentoring engineers and raising the engineering bar while balancing reliability, velocity, security, and cost.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of professional software development experience.
• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Ability to lead infrastructure projects from architecture through production.
• Strong tradeoff thinking across reliability, velocity, performance, security, and cost.

Responsibilities

• Own critical platform systems: architect and operate infrastructure, services, and tooling.
• Improve developer velocity by guiding how teams build, test, deploy, and operate software.
• Scale the platform with growing product demand and multi-cloud needs.
• Drive operational excellence: observability, incident response, and automation.

Skills

Software development

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Observability

Mentoring engineers

Technical leadership

Product intuition

Tools

AWS

MongoDB

Postgres

Redis

Node.js

Job description

Mintlify is building a scalable docs platform for developers. As a Senior Platform Engineer you’ll own critical systems from architecture through production, set technical direction, and raise the quality bar to help engineers move faster and more reliably.

You’ll lead projects across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and multi-cloud deployments, mentoring engineers and raising the engineering bar while balancing reliability, velocity, security, and cost.