Engineering Manager
Kandji
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 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.
How You Will Make a Difference Day to Day:
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
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
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).
Nice to haves, but NOT required:
Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.