AI Platform Engineering Manager

IRONSCALES is redefining email security with an AI-powered platform built to stop phishing and advanced email cyber threats at scale. Our cloud-native solution detects, analyzes, and remediates attacks in real time, helping organizations stay ahead of constantly evolving cyber threats without slowing down their teams. We're a fast-growing cybersecurity company driven by innovation, ownership, and a passion for solving hard problems. Our team builds cutting-edge technology used by organizations around the world to protect what matters most.
If you love building impactful products, solving complex challenges, and working with smart, driven people in a fast-paced startup environment. IRONSCALES is the place for you. Join us and help shape the future of email security
As our AI Platform Engineering Manager, you will have a unique opportunity to make an impact on IRONSCALES’ new Agentic Development Life Cycle – taking it from design, to architecture, DevX, velocity improvements, top quality, and highly performant Cybersecurity product built to prevent Phishing attacks at scale.
Responsibilities:

Lead the AI Platform development team at IRONSCALES, mentoring team members and AI Guild engineers while owning the next-generation architecture for a large-scale, cloud-based, AI-driven microservices cybersecurity platform.
Collaborate with Development and DevOps teams to plan, design, and build AI platform and AI Harnesses, Agents, Skills, MCPs, and plugins, develop infrastructure components and processes for fast-paced agentic development, ensure the best DevX to enable engineers to deliver fast while ensuring high quality, robust, and secure platform.
Design and review system architecture, introduce best practices, incorporate AI agents, tools, and infrastructure components, review feature designs.
Mentor, hire, and inspire a team to adopt engineering excellence, build on-boarding plans for backend engineers.
Be a subject matter expert on AI architecture, and System architecture, working with agents and LLMs, large scale performance, and optimization.
Master AI Platform roadmap, identify opportunities and requirements, build plans, and lead to successful delivery; measure, improve, and communicate effectively risks and mitigations.

Requirements:

Must Haves:

3+ years of Infrastructure or Platform Team management experience, people management - must.
Proven experience in AI Driven Software Engineering, agentic development lifecycle, building skills, MCPs, and AI agents.
Experienced in planning and leading projects in Agile manner, pragmatic, business-oriented, and team player.
Experienced with modern Cloud and software stack, CI/CD, DevX, Micro-Services architecture, Kubernetes, high scale and low latency processing.
8+ years of backend development experience, including at least 2 years in Python.
Experienced with message brokers, synchronous and asynchronous processing, relational and non-relational databases.
BSc or BA in Computer Science or Software Engineering.