Director of Platform Engineering & AI-Native Velocity

MaintainX; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Unlimited time off

Equity

Performance bonuses

Job summary

MaintainX, a leader in mobile-first work execution, seeks an Engineering Director to lead Platform Engineering. You will own the roadmap and operating model for seven foundational teams, shaping reliability, standards, and AI-driven capabilities.

This role requires translating business goals into multi-quarter investments and guiding several software development managers. You will drive an AI-native platform strategy, ensure high reliability, and collaborate with the CTO on org design and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in engineering leadership, including 2+ years managing managers across multiple teams.
• Technical depth in at least two of: distributed systems, backend or mobile frameworks, platform engineering, reliability engineering.
• Track record of owning platform or infrastructure-focused teams at a growth-stage B2B SaaS company, with demonstrated impact on engineering velocity.
• AI-forward: you set direction for teams building on LLMs and agentic workflows, and you hold your org to an AI-native standard.
• Systems thinker who identifies organizational bottlenecks and eliminates them without creating new ones.
• Strong communicator who can represent platform complexity and tradeoffs clearly to product, finance, and executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and operating model for Platform Engineering: set division-level priorities, manage cross-team dependencies, and translate business goals into multi-quarter platform investments.
• Lead and develop a team of Software Development Managers - coaching on people development, technical judgment, and organizational effectiveness across seven teams.
• Set the engineering standards every product team depends on: framework conventions, reliability targets, compliance posture, and CI/CD health.
• Drive MaintainX's AI-native platform strategy - the AI Builder team's agent orchestration, tool registry, and developer environments sit in this division; your job is to ensure the org extracts real leverage from them.
• Own division-level reliability: SLO definitions, incident response frameworks, on-call health, and the systemic path from incident to prevention.
• Partner with the CTO and peer engineering leaders on org design, architectural decisions, and headcount planning.
• Represent Platform Engineering to the business — translating infrastructure investment into engineering velocity, developer experience, and customer trust.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed Systems

Platform Engineering

Reliability Engineering

Software Architecture

Tools

CI/CD

Testing Frameworks

Job description

MaintainX, a leader in mobile-first work execution, seeks an Engineering Director to lead Platform Engineering. You will own the roadmap and operating model for seven foundational teams, shaping reliability, standards, and AI-driven capabilities.

This role requires translating business goals into multi-quarter investments and guiding several software development managers. You will drive an AI-native platform strategy, ensure high reliability, and collaborate with the CTO on org design and