Principal Software Developer, Backend Platform
- Location
- San Francisco, CA (Remote) · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Director
- Listed
- Today
Skills & highlights for this role
- Distributed systems
- AWS
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform/Atmos)
- CI/CD
- GraphQL federation
- Event-driven systems
- APIs
- Node.js
- TypeScript
Also useful
- AI-native workflow design
- Developer experience tooling
- Cross-team technical standards
What you’ll do
- Shape the technical direction, governance and architecture of the backend platform
- Shape AI-native workflows into the platform itself, changing how the org builds services with developers and agents
- Proactively identify and drive resolution of cross-cutting technical challenges before they become delivery blockers, working across multiple engineering teams
- Define and evolve platform-wide standards, patterns, and abstractions adopted across teams
- Influence roadmap priorities by framing trade-offs, surfacing opportunities, and driving alignment across engineering, product, and analytics
- Drive adoption of changes across teams, not just their delivery
- Mentor and elevate senior engineers through complex problems and architectural decisions
- Navigate ambiguity and lead complex, multi-squad initiatives with minimal direction
- Participate in the on-call rotation
About you
- A strong AI-native mindset — you've brought AI-assisted workflows into a platform or org, not just your own workflow.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, demonstrated with experience making architectural decisions with long-term, cross-org, multi-year consequences
- Deep exposure across several of the platform's key domains: cloud (AWS), IaC infrastructure (Terraform/Atmos), CI/CD, GraphQL federation, Event driven systems, APIs, and developer experience
- Expert in Node.js, TypeScript, or similar languages, with a track record of setting standards others adopt.
- Track record of cross-team impact: changing how multiple teams build, decide, or deliver
- Demonstrated ability to frame ambiguous technical problems and drive them to resolution with minimal guidance
- Experience navigating organizational complexity, aligning stakeholders and using data to demonstrate impact
- Strong technical judgment balanced with pragmatism: knows when to advocate for the right solution and when to move forward
- Expert-level English, spoken and written — you'll lead platform engineering managers across multiple teams and present technical priorities to executive stakeholders.
Additional information
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.
Pay and benefits
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.
Belonging. We take pride in a culture where everyone can thrive.
About Maintainx
MaintainX is a leading mobile-first work execution platform for industrial and frontline teams. More than 15,000 customers, including McDonalds, Michaels, Cintas, Redimix, and U.S. LBM, use MaintainX to cut unplanned downtime and run better operations, across 16 million managed assets and 92 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. Autodesk had design and make. Operate is the phase that tells you what actually happened, and it is ours.
We're growing fast and hiring the Engineering talent to match.
The team and the mission
You'd be joining our backend team within the Platform Engineering division.
We're building an AI-native platform for our internal developers, over 150 of them, guided by a single question: does this shorten the time from idea to value, for the teams building on our platform and for the customers they ultimately serve?
The smooth path is the safe, fast path, because the platform makes it the default. We build the route that maximizes AI acceleration.
You'll set the technical direction for how backend services get built, shipped, and operated across the engineering org — not just for one team.
From Maintainx's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 14, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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