Director of Engineering, Platform at MaintainX | Raleigh, North Carolina, US | Rezi

Director of Engineering, Platform at MaintainX

Director of Engineering, Platform

MaintainX · Raleigh, North Carolina, US

2 months ago

Director of Engineering, Platform

MaintainX · Raleigh, North Carolina, US

2 months ago
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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.