AI Builder Tools — Platform Engineering Manager

MaintainX (An Autodesk Company); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

MaintainX, a leading mobile-first work execution platform, is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the AI Builder Tools team in SF. This role focuses on empowering MX engineers with agentic tooling across the SDLC, starting with autonomous coding agents that can take a ticket, implement changes, and open a pull request with minimal hand-holding.

You will mentor engineers, shape CI/CD, observability, and agent orchestration, and collaborate with leadership to scale the platform

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development management experience leading platform, DevEx, or infrastructure teams.
• Strong technical foundation in developer tooling, CI/CD, containerization, and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience in technical design, problem-solving, and project management.
• Passion for hiring, coaching, and developing diverse platform engineering teams.
• Familiarity with LLM agent frameworks, MCP tooling, or agentic coding infrastructure is a strong differentiator.
• Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bonus: shipped an AI coding agent or contributed to a DevEx/platform initiative that measurably improved engineering throughput.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of platform engineers, driving delivery, quality, and innovation on our agentic SDLC platform.
• Partner with Engineering Leadership and Platform teams to scope, plan, and deliver the infrastructure that powers autonomous coding agents across MaintainX.
• Lead, mentor, and grow your developers—helping them build new skills in agent frameworks, developer tooling, and platform engineering.
• Set clear expectations, provide ongoing feedback, and support the team in achieving goals.
• Champion software development excellence—ensuring strong CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, observability, and agent orchestration practices.
• Provide visibility into team impact, progress, and risks to senior leadership—including agent-produced PR rates, adoption metrics, and quality guardrails.
• Collaborate with Recruiting and other Software Development Managers to hire, onboard, and scale a world-class platform engineering organization.

Skills

Software Development Management

CI/CD

Containerization

LLM agent frameworks

Job description

MaintainX, a leading mobile-first work execution platform, is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the AI Builder Tools team in SF. This role focuses on empowering MX engineers with agentic tooling across the SDLC, starting with autonomous coding agents that can take a ticket, implement changes, and open a pull request with minimal hand-holding.

You will mentor engineers, shape CI/CD, observability, and agent orchestration, and collaborate with leadership to scale the platform