The Role
Manage and grow the data engineering team while being hands-on with technical tasks, ensuring data quality and architecture improvements across platforms.
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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:
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead this team. This is a player-coach role: you'll manage and grow the team while staying hands-on with technical work yourself. You should expect to spend ~40–60% of your time designing, building, and reviewing pipelines, models, and infrastructure alongside the team. You'll report to the Director of Data and partner directly with stakeholders across the business to ensure our data platform keeps pace with the company's growth.
This role is high-leverage. The systems you build and the decisions you make will shape how the entire company—and its AI capabilities—understands its products, customers, and performance.
About the Team:
The Data Engineering team owns the infrastructure and pipelines that power data-driven decisions across the company. We ingest, transform, and deliver centralized data from every product in our portfolio—making it possible for Data Science, Analytics, Finance, Revenue, and our product engineering teams to move fast and trust what they see.
Our work is foundational to the company's AI and machine learning initiatives. The quality, freshness, and structure of the data we deliver directly determines what's possible for the models and systems built on top of it. If you want to create leverage for AI at scale, this is where it starts.
Our stack includes Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake, dbt, Python, SQL, AWS. We're at an inflection point: the foundation has been built, and now we need leadership to drive the next chapter—modernizing our architecture, raising the bar on data quality, and scaling how we partner with the rest of the org.
How You'll Make a Difference Day to Day:
- Set technical direction
- Drive architectural improvements to how we ingest, transform, and serve data—improving latency, reliability, and data freshness across the platform
- Strengthen our transformation layers with clear ownership, data quality checks, and well-defined contracts between stages
- Improve our data modeling practices so downstream teams can query confidently
- Lead and grow the team
- Manage, mentor, and develop a nimble team of data engineers
- Build a culture of ownership, quality, speed, and continuous improvement
- Create clarity around priorities, ship cadence, and how the team operates
- Partner across the org
- Work upstream with product engineering to influence how data models are designed in application databases—so they work well with centralized data workflows from day one
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for stakeholder requests, ensuring projects are scoped and architected before work begins
- Build strong relationships with teams across the company to understand their needs and deliver data they can trust
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership or management role
- Strong hands-on experience with modern data tools
- Deep understanding of data modeling and pipeline architecture patterns
- Experience designing and operating reliable data pipelines at scale
- Ability to switch between strategic planning, people leadership, and hands-on technical contribution
- Clear communication skills—you can translate between technical teams and business stakeholders
- Ability to think through problems from the ground up
- Required to work on-site 3x a week in our Miami office (Coral Gables).
Nice to haves, but NOT required:
- Experience with event-driven architectures, CDC, or streaming technologies
- Background in B2B SaaS, especially with multi-product data complexity
- Familiarity with data contracts or other patterns for managing upstream schema changes
- Experience partnering with application teams to influence source system design
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
Top Skills
Airflow
AWS
Dbt
Kafka
Python
Snowflake
SQL
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What We Do
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.
