Senior Software Engineer - Iris AI

Delinea; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Bonus program

Excellent benefits

Pension matching

Life insurance

Employee assistance program

Time off & holidays

Career progression

Job summary

Delinea is seeking a senior backend engineer to design, build, and run scalable services using C#/.NET, Python, and Go on Azure and Kubernetes. You will work on AI-powered features, including inference, context pipelines, and agents, with a focus on secure, multi-tenant SaaS architecture.

Join the Iris AI Team to push innovations in AI security, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to production-grade systems with a strong emphasis on reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing and building production backend services in C#/.NET, Python, or Go.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs: inference, RAG, tool-calling, or agents on major platforms.
• Strong distributed systems, API design, and multi-tenant SaaS experience.
• Experience with a major cloud provider and modern CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and run scalable backend services in C#/.NET, Python, and Go on Azure and Kubernetes.
• Develop LLM-powered features (inference, context pipelines, agents) on platforms like Azure AI Foundry and OpenAI.
• Create event-driven, asynchronous architectures across microservices.
• Own delivery from code to production: Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response.
• Collaborate with product, UX, and platform teams; participate in code/design reviews.
• Leverage AI tooling for daily development and set high-quality code standards.

Skills

C#/.NET

Python

Go

LLMs

Distributed systems

API design

Azure

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Azure AI Foundry

OpenAI API

Bedrock

Vertex AI

Anthropic API

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 is the team building the AI-powered capabilities of the Delinea Platform. We put LLMs to work on real security problems: detecting anomalies in audit data, making authorization decisions smarter, and building agents that do real work for our customers. The problems are new, the pace is fast, and what you build ships to some of the world's largest organizations.

Summary:

You'll design, build, and run the cloud services behind Delinea's AI features, with LLMs as part of your toolkit: inference, retrieval, agents, and evaluation are all product surface you own. Our services are written in C#/.NET, Python, and Go. Be strong in one, and be willing to work in any. You'll report to the Director of Engineering, Iris AI.

What You'll Do:

• Build and run scalable, highly available backend services in C#/.NET, Python, and Go on Azure and Kubernetes.


• Build LLM-powered features on platforms like Azure AI Foundry: model integration, context pipelines, RAG, tool calling, agents, and evals.


• Design event-driven, asynchronous architectures across our microservices.


• Own delivery end to end: Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, and production incident response.


• Work closely with product, UX, and other platform teams; give and get sharp code and design reviews.


• Build with AI every day. We use coding agents to design, write, and review code, and we hold that code to the same bar as anything written by hand.

What You'll Need:

• A degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.


• 8+ years designing and building production backend services in C#/.NET, Python, or Go, with experience across the full software development lifecycle.


• Hands-on experience building products with LLMs (not just using them): inference, structured outputs, RAG, tool calling, or agents on Azure AI Foundry, the OpenAI API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, the Anthropic API, or similar.


• Fluency with AI-assisted development (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) treated as a discipline in its own right: spec-driven development, careful context, and verified, tested output.


• Strong grasp of distributed systems, API design, and microservices, plus experience with a major cloud provider.


• Solid understanding of multi-tenant SaaS architecture and the trade-offs of operating at scale.

We'd Love to See:

• Experience building tools, APIs, or integrations that AI agents call - MCP servers, function/tool-calling interfaces, plugins, or similar.


• ML and MLOps depth: fine-tuning, eval harnesses, and deploying and evaluating models in production.


• Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.


• Identity security, PAM, or Zero Trust background.

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.


• We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.


• What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.

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 Affidavit Action 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.