Principal Software Developer, Backend Platform

About the role

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 https://adsknews.autodesk.com/en/views/inside-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.

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