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, set division-level priorities, manage cross-team dependencies, and translate business goals into multi-quarter platform investments.

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 agent orchestration, tool registry, and developer environments.
• 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
• Strong communicator who can represent platform complexity and tradeoffs clearly to product, finance, and executive stakeholders
• AI-forward: you set direction for teams building on LLMs and agentic workflows, and you hold your org to an AI-native standard

Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in engineering leadership, including 2+ years managing managers across multiple teams
• Systems thinker who identifies organizational bottlenecks and eliminates them without creating new ones — you design teams, not just manage them
• Track record of owning platform or infrastructure-focused teams at a growth-stage B2B SaaS company, with demonstrated impact on engineering velocity
• Experience leading a Testing Frameworks, Quality Engineering, or Developer Productivity platform function
• Hands-on history scaling developer platforms through rapid headcount growth (Series D+)
• Familiarity with CMMS, IoT, or industrial SaaS domains

Pay

USD 228,000 - 313,000