Engineering Manager

About Iru

Iru is the AI-powered security & IT platform used by the world’s fastest-growing companies to secure their users, apps, and devices. Built for the AI era, Iru unifies identity & access, endpoint security & management, and compliance automation—collapsing the stack and giving IT & security time and control back.

Iru is backed by some of the smartest investors in tech—General Catalyst, Tiger Global, Felicis, Greycroft, and First Round Capital. In July 2024, Iru raised $100 million from General Catalyst, valuing the company at $850 million. Customers include Notion, Cursor, Lovable, Replit, and Mercor, and Iru partners with industry leaders such as Service Now and AWS. Iru was named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startup Employers 2025 list for employee engagement and satisfaction.

As an engineering manager at Iru, you will design and build the core services that power our web application, while maintaining security and scalability. You will work alongside our macOS and Infrastructure engineers to bring world class products to market.

We are looking for an engineering manager with experience empowering teams to ship large-scale, mission-critical enterprise software.

• Lead a team of talented engineers who like to ship high-quality code and tackle hard engineering problems
• Understand and report on progress and pacing of initiatives
• Create a collaborative work environment that fosters autonomy, inclusivity, innovation, learning, respect, and transparency while holding a high bar for craftsmanship
• Contribute to and/or execute on the organization’s vision and standards around security, quality, observability, and clean code
• Share your knowledge with team members by reviewing code, collaborating on design documents, giving technical talks, formal mentorship, and JIT feedback
• Collaborate closely with the Design and Product teams to ensure that your team has a well-defined roadmap
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to identify, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity, code quality, automated testing, or other engineering best practices
• Facilitate the squad’s agile meetings by taking on the scrum master role

• 7+ years of experience designing, building and deploying scalable frontend and backend applications leveraging modern languages and frameworks (Python, Django, FastAPI and React preferred)
• 2+ years of hands‑on technical leadership and people management experience
• Experience driving the design and implementation of large-scale initiatives for SaaS products
• Experience working in high growth startup environments and comfortable balancing tactical and strategic considerations
• Deep understanding of agile methodologies/mindset and experience facilitating agile ceremonies
• Thrives in an environment with a high level of autonomy and responsibility
• Strong communication skills with a customer focus
• Quality first mindset
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Required to work on‑site 5x a week in our Miami office (Coral Gables).

• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

Competitive salary

100% individual and dependent medical + dental + vision coverage

401(K) with a 4% company match

20 days PTO

Flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 30 days per year

Iru Wellness Week the first week in July

Equity for full‑time employees

Lunch stipend provided Monday through Friday

Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents

Paid Family and Medical Leave

Modern Health mental health benefits for individuals and dependents

Fertility benefits

Working Advantage employee discounts

Onsite fitness center

Free parking

Exciting opportunities for career growth

We are excited to be serving a significant need for a fast-growing market, and are proud of the high‑performing team we have brought together so far. If you’re someone who wants to engage in new, exciting projects that will challenge your skills in the best way possible, we would love to connect with you.

At Iru, we believe in fostering an inclusive environment in which employees feel encouraged to share their unique perspectives, leverage their strengths, and act authentically. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and welcome those from all backgrounds and varying experiences.

Iru is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, protected veteran or military status or any other status protected by applicable law.