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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Manager, Software Development Engineer - **Company:** AI AI LLC - **Location:** Redwood City, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Cursor, Distributed Systems, Regression Testing, Software Engineering, Enterprise Software Applications, GitHub Copilot, Large Language Models, Technical Debt, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Api Design, Terraform, Microservices - **Published:** September 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/manager-software-development-engineer-iris-ai-delinea-9927501 ## About the Role * 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. ## Description 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. 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