Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Strong builders or ex-founders only!!)
Mintlify
| Company | Mintlify |
| Category | Uncategorised |
| Location | San Francisco |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | USD 190k–265k |
| Posted | 8 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 14 Aug 2026 |
| Source | The employer's own careers page (company_site) |
Description
Why Mintlify?
We're on a mission to empower builders.
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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.
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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.
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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.
What you'll work on here
• Serving as the dedicated technical owner for one or more of our largest enterprise customers after the contract has been signed
• Shipping code, reliable software, and systems that carry production traffic from day one
• Pioneering the patterns for deploying Mintlify inside organizations with 100,000+ employees
• Scoping ambiguous customer asks into shippable plans, and saying no when the ask would fork the product
• Designing and deliver self-hosted and VPC deployments, SSO (SAML/OIDC), and least-privilege access architectures
• Building enterprise-specific integrations with customer systems as they exist today, finding the least invasive path rather than demanding a rebuild
• Debugging production issues across the full stack and own them to resolution
• Productizing the patterns you see across deployments: self-hosting packages, runbooks, integration templates
• Feeding field knowledge back into the core product so we never solve the same problem twice
What you bring to the table
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with real production ownership (you've been paged, you've done the postmortem), focused on backend work
• Direct customer-facing experience: you've sat across from a customer, explained a technical limitation, and kept their trust
• Comfort with enterprise deployment realities: cloud infrastructure, networking, SSO, compliance-conscious environments
• Strong written and verbal communication: you can brief an executive and pair with their platform team in the same afternoon
• Bonus points: Previous founding experience. Experience in an FDE, solutions architecture, or professional services motion.
Why you should join our Enterprise Solutions Team
The Enterprise Solutions team is new and this is a founding seat. We operate as a mini-startup inside each large enterprise deployment with full ownership and direct contact with the customer. You'll define how Mintlify builds enterprise-ready products and prove out the motion for serving the largest organizations in the world, with a direct and measurable line from your work to revenue.