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# Principal Engineering Manager at Gruve

- **Company:** Gruve
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://gruve.ai/careers/?gh_jid=5399721008

## Job description

## About Gruve

Gruve is an innovative software services startup dedicated to transforming enterprises to AI powerhouses. We specialize in cybersecurity, customer experience, cloud infrastructure, and advanced technologies such as Large Language Models (LLMs). Our mission is to assist our customers in their business strategies utilizing their data to make more intelligent decisions. As a well-funded early-stage startup, Gruve offers a dynamic environment with strong customer and partner networks.

## About the Role

Design authority and engineering leader for the IGA/IAM practice. Owns the technical solution across a portfolio of concurrent identity engagements — identity model, governance architecture and integration strategy — and leads the engineering bench that builds it. This is a hands-on-enough leadership role: the expectation is to review and correct a role model or a connector design, not just to manage the people who wrote it.

## Key Responsibilities

- Own end-to-end solution architecture for IGA engagements: identity model, authoritative source strategy, account correlation logic, entitlement catalog design and the target governance operating model.
- Act as design authority across the portfolio — review and approve connector designs, lifecycle and provisioning workflows, role models (RBAC/ABAC), SoD rule sets and certification campaign architecture before build starts.
- Build and lead engineering bench (engineers across US and Pune): staffing to engagements, technical mentoring, code and configuration quality gates, and career development.
- Own migration strategy and execution for legacy-to-modern IGA moves — IdentityIQ to Identity Security Cloud, homegrown or end-of-life platforms to SailPoint, Saviynt or any similar solution— including coexistence, data migration and cutover sequencing.
- Design joiner-mover-leaver automation against HR authoritative sources (Workday, SuccessFactors, SAP HCM), including birthright access, contractor and non-employee lifecycle, and emergency deprovisioning paths.
- Serve as senior technical interface to client IAM Directors, Enterprise Architects and CISO organizations; chair design authority boards and architecture review sessions.
- Support presales and practice growth: solution shaping, level-of-effort estimation, technical SOW scope, RFP and RFI responses, and proof-of-concept leadership.
- Own delivery governance across engagements — technical risk register, dependency management, technical debt tracking, and go/no-go recommendations at each gate.
- Build and curate practice IP: reference architectures, reusable connectors, accelerators, estimation models and design pattern libraries.
- Maintain vendor technical relationships (SailPoint, Saviynt, Okta, Microsoft) and drive the team certification and partner-tier plan.

## Basic Qualifications

- CISSP, CIMP/IDPro, or vendor architect-level certification (SailPoint Certified Architect, Saviynt L400, Okta Certified Consultant).
- PAM adjacency — CyberArk, Delinea or BeyondTrust integration into an IGA program.
- Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) or Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) exposure.
- Non-human, machine and workload identity governance; secrets and service-account lifecycle.
- M&A identity integration, divestiture separation, or multi-tenant/multi-forest consolidation experience.
- Regulated-industry program experience — financial services, healthcare or public sector.

## Preferred Qualifications

- 8+ years in IAM/IGA, including 4+ years leading engineering or architecture teams in a professional services, SI or MSP environment.
- Deep hands-on delivery experience with at least two of: SailPoint IdentityIQ / Identity Security Cloud, Saviynt EIC, Okta Identity Governance, Microsoft Entra ID Governance.
- Demonstrable ownership of full identity lifecycle design: JML processes, birthright and role-based provisioning, access request and approval, delegated administration, deprovisioning and orphan-account handling.
- Access governance depth: certification and recertification program design, segregation-of-duties and toxic-combination modeling, role mining and RBAC/ABAC design, entitlement risk rating.
- Standards fluency: SCIM 2.0, SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, LDAP, JWT, and legacy SPML-era integration patterns.
- Integration breadth across directories and enterprise applications — Active Directory, Entra ID, LDAP, Workday, SAP, ServiceNow, Salesforce, database and mainframe/RACF targets.
- Working cybersecurity context: least privilege and zero standing privilege, privileged access adjacency, identity attack paths, and the audit drivers behind governance programs (SOX ITGC, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001).
- Client-facing gravitas at Director and CISO level; disciplined estimation, scoping and written communication.

Salary Range

$200k - $230k USD

This is a full-time opportunity with Gruve.

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## Why Gruve

At Gruve, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute their best work. If you’re passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Gruve is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and thank all who apply; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

## About Gruve

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gruve provides AI-native cybersecurity, infrastructure, and data services that help enterprises deploy and secure AI at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Tarun Raisoni (CEO, Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Industry**: IT Services and IT Consulting; AI Security & Infrastructure
- **Target Customers**: Large enterprises (B2B), including those in regulated industries requiring private AI deployment and advanced security operations.
- **Mission / Purpose**: Enable scalable, secure, and measurable AI execution in production by delivering an AI-native approach to enterprise services.

## Products & Services
- **PulseAI**: A private AI infrastructure platform that enables enterprises to deploy generative AI on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments – production-ready in under two weeks. (SaaS/infrastructure)
- **AI SOC**: An AI-driven Security Operations Center that combines AI detection, automated investigation, and intelligent response to improve security team efficiency and reduce risk. (Managed service/SaaS)
- **Digital Forensics & Incident Response**: Structured methodologies for preserving evidence, investigating incidents, and accelerating recovery. (Service)
- **Enterprise AI Transformation Services**: Consulting and implementation services including data science, Kubernetes SRE, forward deployment engineering, and AI solution architecture. (Professional services)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: USD $57.5 million (across Seed and Series A rounds)
- **Key Investors**: Mayfield Fund (lead in Series A), Xora Innovation (lead in prior round)
- **Notable Acquisitions**: SecurView (July 2024), NetServ (September 2024), Lumos (October 2024)
- **Growth Signals**: 120.3% YoY employee growth (from ~134 to 413 employees); operations across 9 countries; featured in Cybersecurity Insiders on AI agent governance.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-Native Architecture**: Unlike legacy stacks built for static software, Gruve designs for dynamic AI workloads (probabilistic decisions, context retrieval, autonomous actions).
- **Speed to Scale**: Claims 500MW+ of distributed edge AI inference capacity and a 30% cost advantage over alternatives.
- **Integrated Security & AI**: Combines private AI infrastructure (PulseAI) with an AI-powered SOC, covering the entire lifecycle from deployment to defense.
- **Talent & Expertise**: Team draws from top firms (Cisco, IBM, Infosys) and includes deep Kubernetes, data science, and cybersecurity specialists.

## Strategic Focus
- **Private AI Deployment**: Helping enterprises keep AI workloads on their own infrastructure to maintain data ownership, governance, and security.
- **AI Security Governance**: Developing solutions to govern AI agents as a new attack surface, as highlighted in their recent thought leadership.
- **Global Expansion**: Operating in 9 countries (US, India, South Korea, UAE, Singapore, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Canada) with plans to scale further.
- **Partner Ecosystem**: Working closely with hyperscalers (noted VP of Hyperscaler Solutions) and achieving Red Hat advanced tier partner status.

## Why Work Here
- **High Growth Environment**: Headcount more than doubled in the past year, offering rapid career progression and the chance to shape a young company.
- **Culture of Trust**: Core values include giving trust from day one, constructive feedback, and a championship mindset.  
- **Global & Remote-Friendly**: Offices in 4 countries (US, India, Singapore, UAE) and remote roles posted; a distributed team with cultural diversity.
- **Learning & Impact**: Mentorship programs, opportunities to lead innovative projects in AI and security, and the ability to work on cutting-edge infrastructure.
- **Notable Perks**: Focus on career development, knowledge sharing, and a "people-first" approach.

## Sources
1. [gruve.ai – Company homepage](https://gruve.ai/)
2. [gruve.ai – About Us](https://gruve.ai/about-us/)
3. [gruve.ai – Life at Gruve](https://gruve.ai/life-at-gruve/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/gruveai – LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gruveai)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/gruve – Careers Page](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gruve)

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