Mintlify

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Mintlify
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2 months ago

Base Salary

$250k - $315k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the dedicated technical owner for one or more large enterprise customers after contract signing.
  • Ship code, reliable software, and systems carrying production traffic from day one.
  • Develop deployment patterns for organizations with more than 100,000 employees.
  • Scope ambiguous customer requests into shippable plans and protect the product from unnecessary forks.
  • Design and deliver self-hosted and VPC deployments, SSO, and least-privilege access architectures.
  • Build enterprise integrations with existing customer systems using minimally invasive approaches.
  • Debug full-stack production issues and own them through resolution.
  • Productize recurring deployment patterns into self-hosting packages, runbooks, and integration templates.
  • Feed field knowledge back into the core product to prevent repeated solutions.

Requirements

  • At least five years of software engineering experience with real production ownership, focused on backend work.
  • Direct customer-facing experience, including explaining technical limitations while maintaining customer trust.
  • Comfort with enterprise deployment realities, cloud infrastructure, networking, SSO, and compliance-conscious environments.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for working with executives and platform teams.
  • Previous founding experience is a bonus.
  • Experience in a forward deployed engineering, solutions architecture, or professional services role is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity are offered, with no base salary amount specified.
  • 20 days of paid time off annually.
  • 401(k) or RRSP.
  • $420 per month wellness stipend.
  • 100% coverage for health, dental, and vision.
  • Free Uber transportation to and from work.
  • Free lunch and dinners.
  • Annual team offsite.
  • The role is part of a newly formed enterprise solutions team and is a founding seat.

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Forward Deployed
Mintlify

About Mintlify

51-200 employees

Knowledge infrastructure for AI. Mintlify powers docs for 20,000+ companies, reaching 100M+ developers a year. When humans or agents need to understand your product, they start with your docs. We make sure they find the right answers. We're hiring in SF at mintlify.com/careers.