At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team focused on platform innovation.
- Company: Join MaintainX, a leader in mobile-first work execution platforms, now part of Autodesk.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity options, and diverse benefits tailored for your needs.
- Other info: Be part of a culture that values belonging and fosters growth.
- Why this job: Shape the future of platform engineering and drive AI-native strategies in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: 10+ years in software engineering with strong leadership experience and technical depth.
MaintainX is a leading mobile-first work execution platform for industrial and frontline teams. More than 13,000 customers, including Duracell, McDonald's, Shell, DHL and Volvo, use MaintainX to cut unplanned downtime and run better operations, across 13.9 million managed assets and 79.5 million completed work orders.
In August 2026, MaintainX became part of Autodesk, joining Autodesk Operations Solutions, the organization unifying Autodesk's operations platform alongside Tandem, FlexSim and Fusion Operations. Autodesk's strategy is to converge design, make and operate into one continuous lifecycle: design an asset, build it, run it, then feed what you learn running it back into the next design.
The Opportunity: We're looking for an Engineering Director to lead MaintainX's Platform division. Platform owns 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 business goals into multi-quarter platform investments.
- Lead and develop a team of Software Development Managers - coaching on people development, technical judgment, and organizational effectiveness across seven teams.
- Set the engineering standards every product team depends on: framework conventions, reliability targets, compliance posture, and CI/CD health.
- Drive MaintainX's AI-native platform strategy - the AI Builder team's agent orchestration, tool registry, and developer environments sit in this division; your job is to ensure the org extracts real leverage from them.
- Own division-level reliability: SLO definitions, incident response frameworks, on-call health, and the systemic path from incident to prevention.
- Partner with the CTO and peer engineering leaders on org design, architectural decisions, and headcount planning.
- Represent Platform Engineering to the business — translating infrastructure investment into engineering velocity, developer experience, and customer trust.
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.
About You:
- 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 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.
- AI-forward: you set direction for teams building on LLMs and agentic workflows, and you hold your org to an AI-native standard.
- Systems thinker who identifies organizational bottlenecks and eliminates them without creating new ones — you design teams, not just manage them.
- Strong communicator who can represent platform complexity and tradeoffs clearly to product, finance, and executive stakeholders.
Nice to Have:
- 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.
Our mission is to keep the physical world running. Factories, fleets, hospitals and campuses stay up because the people who maintain them have tools worth using. That is what we build.
Compensation and benefits: Base pay is one part of the package. Depending on the role, compensation may also include commission, an annual bonus and equity. Benefits differ by country. For roles in Canada and other countries, the plan differs on health coverage, retirement and leave, and your recruiter will walk you through it.
Belonging: We take pride in a culture where everyone can thrive.
Director of Platform Engineering in Toronto employer: MaintainX
At MaintainX, we pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and innovative work culture that empowers our employees to thrive. As a Senior AI Platform Engineer, you will have access to cutting-edge technology and the opportunity for professional growth in a dynamic environment located in a vibrant tech hub. We offer competitive benefits, a commitment to work-life balance, and a supportive team that values your contributions and encourages continuous learning.
