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 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.
We are looking for a Senior SRE to own how we detect, respond to, and learn from incidents, and to drive consistent observability across services and teams. This role sits at the intersection of reliability engineering and cross-team enablement—you will work alongside our Infrastructure team to complement their platform-building work with a sharp focus on operational excellence and measurable reliability. You will partner with engineering and platform teams to reduce MTTD and MTTR, and to make reliability measurable, repeatable, and ultimately team-owned.
Experience: 5+ years in SRE, production engineering, or equivalent, including on-call responsibility for customer-facing systems.
Incidents: Proven experience running or significantly improving incident response (process, tooling, or both) in a distributed systems environment.
Observability: Deep, hands-on experience with Datadog—building dashboards, monitors, and instrumentation standards across multiple teams or services. Experience with metrics, logging, and tracing at scale.
SLI/SLO Programs: Demonstrated experience defining SLOs/SLIs and error budget policies in production; comfortable working with teams to codify the metrics their reliability posture is based on.
Systems: Strong understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems failure modes, and cloud or hybrid infrastructure (Kubernetes, load balancers, databases, queues).
Automation: Proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, or similar for tooling and automation; comfort with IaC concepts (Terraform or equivalent).
Communication: Clear written and verbal communication; ability to facilitate discussions during high-pressure incidents and deliberate postmortems alike.
Collaboration: Track record of influencing without direct authority and driving adoption across engineering teams.
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 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.
