Staff Software Engineer - AI Discovery & Posture

Delinea; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Bonus program

Healthcare

Job summary

Delinea is seeking a senior backend engineer to build and extend cloud backend capabilities for our Identity Security Platform. You will work on AI agent discovery, integrate with cloud discovery (Azure first, then AWS/GCP), and assess security posture of discovered agents to enable governance.

You will collaborate with platform teams to ensure robust integration and a scalable, secure enterprise solution. A strong background in cloud backends and security-focused development is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building production cloud or SaaS backend systems.
• Hands-on experience with cloud provider APIs (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud) and asset discovery or inventory systems.
• Experience extending or integrating with an existing platform, not only greenfield builds.
• Strong skills in a modern backend language such as C#, Go, Java, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend cloud backend capabilities for Delinea's Identity Security Platform.
• Integrate AI agent discovery with existing cloud discovery, starting with Azure and expanding to AWS/GCP.
• Assess security posture of discovered agents and feed context into identity and attribution layers.
• Collaborate with platform teams to leverage discovery services and ensure coherent governance.

Skills

Backend development

Cloud APIs

Platform integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Azure API

AWS API

GCP 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.

Summary:

AI agents are appearing across the enterprise faster than anyone can keep track of them, and you cannot secure what you cannot see. In this role you will build the capabilities that find AI agents wherever they run, across cloud platforms and on endpoints, and assess their security posture so the rest of our AI security platform can govern them. This role will report directly into our Director of Engineering, Securing AI.

What You'll Do:

• Build AI agent discovery on top of Delinea's existing cloud discovery rather than standing up a separate inventory, covering Microsoft Azure today and expanding to AWS and Google Cloud as the platform adds those clouds.
• Build discovery for AI agents running on endpoints, a newer surface for the team.
• Assess the security posture of discovered agents: how they are configured, what they can access, and where they create risk.
• Feed discovered agents and their context into our identity and attribution layer so they can be governed.
• Partner closely with the platform teams whose discovery services your work builds on.

What You'll Need:

• Typically 8 or more years building production cloud or SaaS backend systems.
• Hands-on experience with cloud provider APIs (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud) and asset discovery or inventory systems.
• Experience extending or integrating with an existing platform, not only greenfield builds.
• Strong skills in a modern backend language such as C#, Go, Java, or Python.
• Ability to break down complex, ambiguous problems and select sound technical approaches with limited direction.

We'd Love to See:

• Experience with endpoint agent or device management technologies.
• Background in security or posture management such as CSPM or CIEM.
• Familiarity with AI agent frameworks and how agents authenticate and act.

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.

• 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 Affidative 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.