Director of Platform Engineering

Join MaintainX as the Director of Platform Engineering, where you will lead the Platform division and define how a high-growth engineering organization operates at scale. You will own the roadmap and operating model for Platform Engineering, lead and develop a team of Software Development Managers, set engineering standards, drive the AI-native platform strategy, and own division-level reliability. You will also partner with the CTO and peer engineering leaders on org design, architectural decisions, and headcount planning, and represent Platform Engineering to the business.

Own the roadmap and operating model for Platform Engineering, setting division-level priorities and managing cross-team dependencies.

About MaintainX

AI-forward: you set direction for teams building on LLMs and agentic workflows, and you hold your org to an AI-native standard

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Software Development Managers, coaching on people development, technical judgment, and organizational effectiveness across seven teams.
• Drive MaintainX's AI-native platform strategy, ensuring the organization extracts real leverage from AI Builder team's capabilities.
• 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
• Systems thinker who identifies organizational bottlenecks and eliminates them without creating new ones — you design teams, not just manage them
• Hands-on history scaling developer platforms through rapid headcount growth (Series D+)

Requirements

• 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 reviews
• Track record of owning platform or infrastructure-focused teams at a growth-stage B2B SaaS company, with demonstrated impact on engineering velocity
• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in engineering leadership, including 2+ years managing managers across multiple teams
• Strong communicator who can represent platform complexity and tradeoffs clearly to product, finance, and executive stakeholders
• Experience leading a Testing Frameworks, Quality Engineering, or Developer Productivity platform function
• Familiarity with CMMS, IoT, or industrial SaaS domains