MaintainX
SaaS
DirectorofEngineering,Platform
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“Director of Engineering, Platform at MaintainX. Skills: Platform Engineering, AI Strategy, Reliability Engineering, Engineering Leadership. Own platform engineering roadmap. Own platform operating model”
What You'll Achieve.
Improve engineering velocity; Improve developer experience; Enhance customer trust
Industry & Context.
Identify organizational bottlenecks; Eliminate bottlenecks
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years software engineering, 5+ years engineering leadership, 2+ years managing managers, Technical depth in distributed systems, Technical depth in backend frameworks, Technical depth in mobile frameworks, Technical depth in platform engineering, Technical depth in reliability engineering, Owning platform teams, Owning infrastructure teams, AI-forward direction setting
Nice to Have
Leading Testing Frameworks function, Leading Quality Engineering function, Leading Developer Productivity platform function, Scaling developer platforms, Familiarity with CMMS, Familiarity with IoT, Familiarity with industrial SaaS
What You'll Do.
Own platform engineering roadmap
Own platform operating model
Set division-level priorities
Manage cross-team dependencies
Translate business goals
Lead Software Engineering Managers
Coach on people development
Coach on technical judgment
Coach on organizational effectiveness
Set engineering standards
Drive AI-native platform strategy
Ensure org extracts leverage
Own division-level reliability
Establish incident response frameworks
Manage on-call health
Partner with peer leaders
Represent Platform Engineering
Translate infrastructure investment
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-team dependencies; Peer engineering leaders; Product stakeholders; Finance stakeholders; Executive stakeholders
Communication Scope
Represent platform complexity; Translate tradeoffs
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning, Operating model
Full Job Description
MaintainX is the world's leading AI-powered maintenance and asset management platform, serving 13,000+ customers including Duracell, Shell, Cintas, and Brenntag. We raised $150M in Series D funding https://www.getmaintainx.com/newsroom/maintainx-raises-150m led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, bringing our total funding to $254M. We were named to the Forbes 2025 Cloud 100 https://www.getmaintainx.com/blog/maintainx-named-to-2025-forbes-cloud-100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world. We're growing fast and hiring the talent to match. 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. We recently completed a $150 million Series D round, bringing our total funding to $254 million and valuing the company at $2.5 billion. We’re 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. THE OPPORTUNITY We're looking for a Director of Engineering to lead MaintainX's Platform division — the seven foundational teams every product engineer builds on: AI Builder, DevOps, Compliance, Testing Frameworks, Backend Frameworks, Mobile Frameworks, and SRE. This is a manager-of-managers role for someone who wants to define how a high-growth engineering org operates at scale. WHAT YOU’LL DO: - Own the roadmap and operating model for Platform Engineering: set division-level priorities, manage cross-team dependencies, and translate b
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