AI-First Software Engineering Manager

Delinea; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare insurance

Pension/retirement matching

Life insurance

Employee assistance program

Time off plans

Paid company holidays

Job summary

Delinea is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead the Iris AI team. You will manage senior engineers building the services behind Delinea's AI features, including LLM inference, retrieval, tool calling, agents, and evaluation.

You will own part of the Iris AI roadmap, drive high engineering standards, and grow a team that treats AI-assisted development as core engineering discipline. You will report to the Director of Engineering, Iris AI, and collaborate with product, UX, architecture,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years directly managing software engineering teams, with a strong hands-on engineering background.
• 7+ years designing, building, and shipping enterprise software products to production.
• Hands-on experience shipping products built on LLMs (inference, structured outputs, RAG, tool calling, or agents).
• Fluency with AI-assisted development and managing a team that uses it effectively.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, microservices, and multi-tenant SaaS on major cloud providers (Azure preferred).
• Proven ability to translate roadmaps into actionable plans and manage resources.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of software engineers within Iris AI, including hiring and performance reviews.
• Translate product and engineering roadmaps into operational plans; own delivery, scope, and priorities.
• Partner with peer teams to align priorities and present results and recommendations.
• Manage day-to-day engineering for feature delivery, reliability, and costs.
• Establish quality practices for non-deterministic systems and maintain production monitoring.
• Ensure AI features meet security and privacy standards and conduct code/design reviews.

Skills

Team leadership

LLM experience

Distributed systems

Cloud/NASA platforms

Roadmap translation

Communication

Hands-on engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

OpenAI API

Amazon Bedrock

Google Vertex AI

Anthropic API

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Delinea is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead the Iris AI team. You will manage senior engineers building the services behind Delinea's AI features, including LLM inference, retrieval, tool calling, agents, and evaluation.

You will own part of the Iris AI roadmap, drive high engineering standards, and grow a team that treats AI-assisted development as core engineering discipline. You will report to the Director of Engineering, Iris AI, and collaborate with product, UX, architecture,