Director of Platform Engineering

MaintainX; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Competitive salary and equity

Training and development investments

Comprehensive healthcare coverage

Job summary

MaintainX is seeking an Engineering Director to lead Platform Engineering, overseeing AI Builder, DevOps, Compliance, Testing Frameworks, Backend/Mobile Frameworks, and SRE. This is a manager-of-managers role to define how a high-growth engineering org operates at scale and to own the platform roadmap and operating model.

You will coach seven Software Development Managers, set engineering standards, drive an AI-native platform strategy, own reliability, and collaborate with the CTO and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in engineering leadership.
• 2+ years managing managers across multiple teams.
• Strong communicator capable of presenting to executives.
• Experience with platform or infrastructure-focused teams at scale.
• Familiarity with AI-native platforms and LLM-enabled workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the Platform Engineering roadmap and operating model.
• Lead and develop seven Software Development Managers across multiple teams.
• Set engineering standards, CI/CD health, and reliability targets.
• Drive AI-native platform strategy including AI Builder and agent orchestration.
• Own division-level reliability and incident response frameworks.
• Partner with the CTO and other engineering leaders on org design and headcount.
• Represent Platform Engineering to business partners and executives.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering leadership

People management

Communication

Systems thinking

AI-forward strategy

Tools

CI/CD

Testing Frameworks

Job description

• We’re looking for an Engineering Director to lead MaintainX’s Platform division. Platform owns the seven foundational teams every product engineer builds on: AI Builder, DevOps, Compliance, Testing Frameworks, Backend Frameworks, Mobile Frameworks, and SRE. This is a manager-of-managers role for someone who wants to define how a high-growth engineering org operates at scale
• 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
• An expert level of English, both spoken and written, is required, as the individual will need to lead platform engineering managers across multiple teams, present technical priorities to executive stakeholders, and align with engineering leaders outside Québec on a daily basis

Benefits

• Flexible time off
• Competitive salary and equity opportunities
• Training and development investments
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage

Technical depth in at least two of: distributed systems, backend or mobile frameworks, platform engineering, reliability engineering - credible enough to make hard hiring decisions and engage in architecture reviewsStrong communicator who can represent platform complexity and tradeoffs clearly to product, finance, and executive stakeholders10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in engineering leadership, including 2+ years managing managers across multiple teamsSystems thinker who identifies organizational bottlenecks and eliminates them without creating new ones - you design teams, not just manage themAI-forward: you set direction for teams building on LLMs and agentic workflows, and you hold your org to an AI-native standardTrack record of owning platform or infrastructure-focused teams at a growth-stage B2B SaaS company, with demonstrated impact on engineering velocityExperience leading a Testing Frameworks, Quality Engineering, or Developer Productivity platform functionHands-on history scaling developer platforms through rapid headcount growth (Series D+)Familiarity with CMMS, IoT, or industrial SaaS domains