The Role
Build and maintain scalable backend services and real-time device orchestration pipelines (Kafka), optimize database performance, improve CI/CD and infrastructure, mentor engineers, and contribute to frontend admin consoles using React.
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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
At Iru, we are redefining enterprise IT and security by building a unified, AI-powered device management platform. As a Senior Software Engineer on our IT Products team, you will build the core, high-throughput backend infrastructure that remotely configures, patches, and secures millions of endpoints from macOS and Windows laptops to iOS and Android devices worldwide.
The IT Products teams own the critical, real-time communication pipeline between our platform and the devices themselves. You will tackle complex challenges in distributed systems, handling massive influxes of device telemetry and building automated, event-driven workflows that allow IT admins to manage their entire fleet from a single console. If you want to build deep highly performant systems where your code directly secures and orchestrates enterprise hardware at scale, this is your opportunity.
How You'll Make a Difference Day to Day
- Build and Maintain Service Architecture: Architect and implement reliable, scalable backend services to support our device management platform, with a heavy focus on backend engineering (~70% of the role).
- Power Real-Time Device Orchestration: Own and evolve our asynchronous service communication, configuration distribution, and telemetry pipelines using Kafka to handle high-velocity device state changes.
- Optimize Database Performance: Write clean, high-performance database queries to interact directly with our relational databases, ensure maximum query efficiency, speed, and visibility into device inventories.
- Leverage Modern Dev Workflows: Lean into AI-assisted development tools to accelerate your workflow, while maintaining a rigorous standard for self-reviewing code so as not to bog down the team’s pipeline.
- Drive Infrastructure Improvements: Partner with the infrastructure team to evolve CI/CD pipelines, agent distribution networks, and service deployment patterns.
- Mentor and Lead by Example: Lead technical development with knowledge of up-to-date best practices, and guide other engineers through code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical decision-making.
- Design for Scalability and Resilience: Build systems that handle massive device fleet growth gracefully and are resilient to failure across distributed global environments.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a heavy leaning toward backend web development.
- Expertise in Python and TypeScript: Strong, professional proficiency in Python and TypeScript is required.
- Python Framework Experience: Production experience building APIs and services with FastAPI, Django, or Flask.
- Full-Stack Capability: Comfort or exposure to frontend architecture like React to handle the ~30% frontend needs of the platform's administrative consoles.
- Experience working with event-driven architectures and message brokers, with Kafka being a strict requirement.
- Deep understanding of service-oriented architecture, microservices, and handling high-concurrency connections.
- Pragmatic approach to AI-assisted development (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.), knowing how to use it to move faster, while possessing the senior-level debugging skills to review and validate generated code before it hits peer review.
- Prior experience in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
- Strong experience with peer code reviews, offering and receiving constructive feedback.
- Experience with E2E testing systems like Playwright or Selenium.
- Experience with observability tools including distributed tracing, logging, and monitoring using tools such as DataDog.
- On-Site Requirement: Ability to work on-site in our Coral Gables office Tuesday through Thursday.
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
Skills Required
- 5+ years professional software engineering experience
- Expertise in Python
- Expertise in TypeScript
- Production experience building APIs/services with FastAPI, Django, or Flask
- Comfort or exposure to frontend architecture like React
- Experience with event-driven architectures and message brokers (Kafka required)
- Deep understanding of service-oriented architecture, microservices, and high-concurrency connections
- Pragmatic use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) with senior-level code review skills
- Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP)
- Hands-on experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation
- Experience with E2E testing systems like Playwright or Selenium
- Experience with observability tools including distributed tracing, logging, and monitoring (e.g., DataDog)
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment
- Strong experience with peer code reviews and providing/receiving constructive feedback
- Mentoring and technical leadership (guiding architecture, code reviews, decisions)
- Ability to work on-site in Coral Gables Tuesday through Thursday
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The Company
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.
