Senior Software Engineer, Platform Services

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 Cursor, Vercel, Bumble, Plaid, Glean, Apollo, 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, Core Services, you will help scale the critical infrastructure that powers Iru’s multiple product lines. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Engineering for Platform, you will work on the scalability, reliability, and security of Iru’s core shared services as our customer base, traffic, and product surface grow. This core platform team focuses on enabling rapid innovation by developing and maintaining foundational components that support our broader engineering organization.

You will collaborate closely with other development teams to decompose monolithic applications into well-structured services that scale independently, build self-serve infrastructure capabilities, and develop shared services that enhance developer productivity. The Core Services team owns and maintains essential components such as the API Gateway, Service Mesh, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. This role requires participation in an on-call rotation to ensure platform stability and reliability.

How You Will Make a Difference Day To Day

• Scale the Platform: Design and evolve core services to handle growth in customers, devices, and traffic, and plan capacity ahead of demand instead of reacting to it.
• Build and Maintain Core Services: Design, develop, and optimize critical infrastructure components, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and maintainable.
• Improve Reliability: Implement best practices for system architecture and operations, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Drive Innovation: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities to enhance the developer experience and introduce new services that accelerate product development.
• Enable Engineering Excellence: Define and implement best practices in software engineering, CI/CD, and observability.
• Optimize Performance: Analyze and enhance system performance, ensuring low latency, high throughput, and minimal downtime.
• Participate in On-Call Rotation: Ensure the reliability and uptime of mission-critical services by participating in on-call duties and responding to incidents as needed.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in backend programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Java, or similar).
• Proficiency with AI-driven development methods, such as using AI coding agents to plan, write, test, and review code, with the judgment to verify their output.
• Experience working in a B2B SaaS company with multiple product lines.
• Deep understanding of service-oriented architecture and microservices best practices.
• Prior experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• Ability to identify problems/opportunities, break them down into critical parts, and design scalable solutions.
• Proven experience scaling production systems, such as handling significant growth in traffic, data volume, or number of services.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies.
• Familiarity with content delivery networks (CDNs) and caching strategies.
• Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and/or gRPC.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests to ensure high-quality software.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or ECS.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL.
• Strong experience with peer code reviews, offering and receiving constructive feedback to maintain and elevate coding standards.

• Experience with API gateways (e.g., Kong, AWS API Gateway).
• Familiarity with service meshes (e.g., Dapr, Linkerd, Istio).
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message brokers (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ).
• Hands-on experience with MQTT and IoT protocols.
• Experience with observability tools and practices, including distributed tracing, logging, and monitoring.
• Familiarity with security and compliance best practices in cloud environments.

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.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.