Senior Software Engineer, Iru AI

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 ServiceNow and AWS. Iru was named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startup Employers 2025 list for employee engagement and satisfaction.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play an important role in designing and building the services that power IruAI. You will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure software systems.

In this role, you will contribute to the development of modern backend architectures while helping integrate AI-powered capabilities into our platform. You will work with Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI tooling to help build intelligent product features and internal development tools.

You will be expected to take ownership of key components, contribute to system design discussions, and help drive engineering best practices across the team.

Required to work on-site in our Coral Gables office Tuesday – Thursday.

How You'll Make a Difference Day to Day:

• Build and Maintain Backend Services: Design, develop, and maintain reliable backend services and APIs that support core product functionality.
• Contribute to System Architecture: Work with senior engineers to design scalable service architectures and implement distributed systems that are resilient and maintainable.
• Develop AI-Powered Features: Contribute to the implementation of AI-driven capabilities using modern LLM platforms and APIs to enhance product functionality and developer productivity.
• Improve Developer Workflows: Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to improve local development environments, CI/CD pipelines, and testing workflows.
• Build Scalable Systems: Develop systems designed to scale as the product and customer base grow while maintaining reliability and performance.
• Implement Messaging and Integration Patterns: Help build and maintain event-driven services and integrations using message brokers such as Kafka or similar technologies.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate product ideas into technical solutions.
• Write High-Quality Code: Maintain strong coding standards through testing, code reviews, and adherence to engineering best practices.
• Continuously Improve the Platform: Identify opportunities to improve performance, reduce technical debt, and strengthen system reliability.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in backend programming languages such as Python, Go, or Java
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services
• Familiarity with service-oriented architecture and microservices patterns
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
• Experience working with event-driven architectures and message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Experience building and deploying services using Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or ECS
• Proficiency with SQL and relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL
• Experience writing unit and integration tests
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices
• Ability to analyze problems, break them down, and deliver scalable solutions
• Experience participating in peer code reviews and collaborative engineering processes

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Python-based AI/LLM application development
• Experience integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into backend systems
• Familiarity working with AI model APIs such as:
• Anthropic Claude
• OpenAI models
• Experience using Pydantic or similar schema validation frameworks for structured AI responses and API validation
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, AI tool orchestration, or agent-based systems
• Experience building systems that support AI inference pipelines or AI-driven product features
• Exposure to frontend technologies such as React
• Familiarity with CDNs and caching strategies
• Experience with E2E testing frameworks such as Playwright
• Experience working with API gateways (e.g., Kong, AWS API Gateway)
• Familiarity with service meshes (e.g., Dapr, Linkerd, Istio)
• Experience implementing observability practices, including logging, metrics, and distributed tracing
• Experience building AI agents or tool-driven LLM systems
• Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Experience building internal developer tools powered by AI
• Experience working in high-growth startup environments

Benefits & Perks

Competitive salary

Hybrid work environment (3 days in office per week)

100% individual and dependent medical + dental + vision coverage

401(K) with a 4% company match

20 days PTO

Iru Wellness Week the first week in July

Equity for full-time employees

In-office lunch stipend provided

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. #LI-Hybrid