About the Role
Lead MaintainX's Platform division, encompassing 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. MaintainX is a leading AI-powered Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) platform, dedicated to simplifying the lives of blue-collar workers globally through intuitive, mobile-first software.
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap and operating model for Platform Engineering, setting division-level priorities, managing cross-team dependencies, and translating business goals into multi-quarter platform investments.
- Lead and develop a team of Software Engineering Managers, coaching on people development, technical judgment, and organizational effectiveness across seven teams.
- 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'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 peer 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 with 5+ years in engineering leadership, including 2+ years managing managers across multiple teams.
- Technical depth in at least two areas: distributed systems, backend or mobile frameworks, platform engineering, or reliability engineering.
- Track record of owning platform or infrastructure-focused teams at a growth-stage B2B SaaS company, demonstrating impact on engineering velocity.
- 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
- Experience leading Testing Frameworks, Quality Engineering, or Developer Productivity platform functions.
- History scaling developer platforms through rapid headcount growth (Series D+).
- Familiarity with CMMS, IoT, or 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
- Meaningful equity opportunities
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k) enrollment program
- RRSP enrollment program
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
About the Company
- MaintainX is a leading AI-powered Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) platform.
- Our mission is to simplify the lives of blue-collar workers globally with intuitive, mobile-first software.
- Powers operational excellence for over 12,000 businesses, including Duracell, McDonald's, and Shell.
- Recently completed a $150 million Series D round, totaling $254 million in funding and valuing the company at $2.5 billion.
- Redefining how maintenance and operations teams work, transforming maintenance into a strategic lever for growth.
- Fuses enterprise strength with consumer simplicity to boost reliability, performance, and efficiency.
- Provides enterprise-grade software for the 80% of the workforce not working behind a desk.
- Work culture values Smart Humble Optimists, meritocracy, and public celebration of ideas and effort.
Equal Opportunity
- MaintainX is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants 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.
