Senior Backend Platform Engineer - AI-Powered Platform

MaintainX; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

MaintainX is hiring for a Backend Platform Engineer within Platform Engineering to design, build, and maintain the internal developer platform that powers 150+ internal developers. You will drive AI-enabled workflows, uphold engineering excellence, and consolidate platform primitives for scalable production use.

You will collaborate across teams, shaping internal APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure while communicating priorities to executives and engineering leaders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of distributed systems experience.
• Expert in Node.js, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Proficient designing, maintaining, and evolving GraphQL APIs at scale.
• Strong AI mindset.
• Good knowledge of cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• A product mindset: build for internal customers.
• Advanced English, both spoken and written.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend foundations and tooling powering our internal developer platform.
• Bring AI native and add on workflows into daily work and the platform.
• Raise engineering excellence standards.
• Lead to the consolidation and evolution of platform primitives: developer portal, local development, domain-service templates and scaffolders, graphQL, event-driven, openAPI golden paths and CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborate with other platform teams and product development teams on defining and adopting the internal developer platform.

Skills

Distributed systems

Node.js

TypeScript

GraphQL

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD pipelines

English proficiency

Job description

MaintainX is hiring for a Backend Platform Engineer within Platform Engineering to design, build, and maintain the internal developer platform that powers 150+ internal developers. You will drive AI-enabled workflows, uphold engineering excellence, and consolidate platform primitives for scalable production use.

You will collaborate across teams, shaping internal APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure while communicating priorities to executives and engineering leaders.