Manager, Software Development Engineer, Iris AI

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

About Delinea

Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.

Join our passionate, global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world‑class product leadership, outstanding engineers, and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity, innovation, and a culture of respect and fairness. If you're ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security, we want to hear from you.

About the Iris AI Team

Iris AI powers the AI-driven capabilities of the Delinea Platform. The team uses LLMs to detect anomalies in audit data, enhance authorization decisions, and deploy intelligent agents that deliver measurable results for some of the world's largest organizations. The work is new, fast-moving, and sits at the intersection of identity security and applied AI.

Summary

Delinea is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to join the leadership of Iris AI. You will

manage a team of senior engineers who build and operate the services behind Delinea's AI features: LLM inference, retrieval, tool calling, agents, and evaluation.

You will own a portion of the Iris AI roadmap and the engineers delivering it, hold a high bar for how LLM-powered features are built and verified, and grow a team that treats AI-assisted development as a core engineering discipline.

You will report to the Director of Engineering, Iris AI.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and retain a team of software engineers within Iris AI, including hiring, coaching, 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development.
• Translate product and engineering roadmaps into operational plans; own delivery, scope, and priorities for your team.
• Partner with peer engineering managers, Product, UX, Architecture, and platform teams to align priorities and present results and recommendations.

What You'll Do

• Manage day-to-day engineering for your team, balancing feature delivery, reliability, technical debt, and LLM cost and latency.
• Help establish quality practices for non-deterministic systems across Iris AI: eval harnesses, regression testing for prompts and agents, and production monitoring of model behavior.
• Ensure AI features meet Delinea's security and privacy standards, including tenant data isolation, defenses against prompt injection and tool misuse, and responsible handling of customer audit data.
• Oversee code and design reviews to maintain a high bar for performance, security, and maintainability.
• Own the team's operational health: infrastructure as code with Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, on‑call, and incident response.
• Champion AI‑first engineering. The team uses coding agents to design, write, and review code daily; help set the practices that hold that output to the same standard as hand‑written code, and measure the impact.

What You'll Need

• 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) using Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Anthropic API, or similar.
• Fluency with AI‑assisted development (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) and a clear point of view on running a team that uses it well: spec‑driven development, careful context management, and verified, tested output.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, microservices, and multi‑tenant SaaS architecture, with experience on a major cloud provider (Azure preferred).
• Proven ability to translate roadmaps into actionable plans, set priorities, and manage resourcing to meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

We’d Love to See

• Experience building tools, APIs, or integrations that AI agents call (MCP servers, function/tool‑calling interfaces, plugins).
• Expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience launching new teams or products in ambiguous, fast‑changing environments.
• Experience establishing AI‑first engineering practices and measuring their impact.

For this Job, Delinea is not considering candidates that need any type of US work authorization now or in the future. This includes, but is not limited to: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J1, etc.

Why work at Delinea?

• We're passionate problem‑solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.

At Delinea, our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success:

• Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do
• Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments
• Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team
• Ownership - We take initiative and follow through
• Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast‑changing environment
• Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes

We believe weaving these core values into our day‑to‑day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.

We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.

Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Aff… employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy. In addition, all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.