About the Role
MaintainX is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead its Platform division, which includes seven foundational teams: AI Builder, DevOps, Compliance, Testing Frameworks, Backend Frameworks, Mobile Frameworks, and SRE. This manager-of-managers role defines how a high-growth engineering organization operates at scale. The company's mission is to make the lives of blue-collar workers easier worldwide by providing intuitive, mobile-first software that helps teams keep the physical world running.
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap and operating model for Platform Engineering, setting division priorities, managing cross-team dependencies, and translating business goals into platform investments.
- Lead and develop a team of Software Engineering Managers, coaching on people development, technical judgment, and organizational effectiveness.
- Set engineering standards for framework conventions, reliability targets, compliance posture, and CI/CD health.
- Drive MaintainX's AI-native platform strategy, ensuring the organization leverages AI Builder team's agent orchestration, tool registry, and developer environments.
- Own division-level reliability, including SLO definitions, incident response frameworks, on-call health, and incident prevention.
- Partner with the CTO and engineering leaders on organizational design, architectural decisions, and headcount planning.
- Represent Platform Engineering to the business, translating infrastructure investment into engineering velocity, developer experience, and customer trust.
Requirements
- 10+ years in software engineering.
- 5+ years in engineering leadership.
- 2+ years managing managers across multiple teams.
- Technical depth in at least two of: distributed systems, backend frameworks, mobile frameworks, platform engineering, reliability engineering.
- Track record of owning platform or infrastructure-focused teams at a growth-stage B2B SaaS company.
- Ability to set direction for teams building on LLMs and agentic workflows, maintaining an AI-native standard.
- Systems thinker capable of identifying and eliminating organizational bottlenecks.
- Strong communication skills to represent platform complexity and tradeoffs to product, finance, and executive stakeholders.
Skills
- Distributed systems
- Backend frameworks
- Mobile frameworks
- Platform engineering
- Reliability engineering
- LLMs
- Agentic workflows
- Systems thinking
- Communication
- CMMS
- IoT
- Industrial SaaS domains
Experience Level
- 10+ years in software engineering
- 5+ years in engineering leadership
- 2+ years managing managers across multiple teams
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Meaningful equity opportunities
- Healthcare coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k) / RRSP enrollment program
- Take what you need PTO
About the Company
- MaintainX is the leading AI-powered Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) platform built for the modern world.
- Our mission is to make the lives of blue-collar workers easier worldwide by providing intuitive, mobile-first software that helps teams keep the physical world running.
- MaintainX powers operational excellence for 12,000+ businesses including Duracell, Univar Solutions Inc., Titan America, McDonald's, Brenntag, Cintas, Xylem, and Shell.
- The company recently completed a $150 million Series D round, bringing total funding to $254 million and valuing the company at $2.5 billion.
- MaintainX is redefining how maintenance and operations teams work, transforming maintenance from a cost center into a strategic lever for growth.
- MaintainX fuses enterprise strength with consumer simplicity, empowering organizations to boost reliability, performance, and efficiency.
- Our product is truly life-changing for the 80% of the workforce who doesn’t work behind a desk and needs enterprise-grade software at their fingertips.
- The work culture fosters collaboration with folks across the globe who reflect the MaintainX values: Smart Humble Optimists.
- MaintainX believes in meritocracy, where ideas and effort are publicly celebrated.
Equal Opportunity
- MaintainX is committed to creating a diverse environment.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
