Manager, Software Development Engineer, Iris AI

Delinea is a provider of identity security solutions that uses AI-powered intelligence to help organizations secure human and machine identities. The Manager, Software Engineering will lead the Iris AI engineering team, oversee delivery of LLM-powered services, establish quality and security practices, and manage operational health across infrastructure, monitoring, and incident response.

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
• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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
• 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