12 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define the three-plus-year technical vision for Developer Platform infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability systems.
- Identify major engineering productivity gaps and convert them into multi-quarter technical roadmaps.
- Drive strategic AI/ML integration into developer workflows, internal processes, and productivity tools.
- Lead cross-cutting platform initiatives involving approximately 10–18 engineers from inception through operation.
- Establish quality, structural, and operational standards across core platform systems.
- Resolve conflicting priorities and build alignment across dependent engineering organizations.
- Influence a unified software development vision across Engineering and mentor Staff Engineers toward Principal-level impact.
- Represent the company through external contributions such as open source, publications, and standards committees.
Requirements
- Typically 12+ years of industry experience in Software Engineering, with significant focus on Developer Platforms, Infrastructure, or Core Tools.
- Experience operating at a scope equivalent to an Engineering Director in strategic impact, influence, and technical ownership.
- Proven ability to define and drive technical strategy for high-impact initiatives across complex, multi-organizational systems.
- Deep expertise in a general-purpose programming language such as Go, Java, C++, Scala, or Python.
- Experience architecting and scaling highly available, fault-tolerant Developer Platforms and Infrastructure.
- Demonstrated understanding of strategically leveraging AI/ML to improve software development and company productivity.
- Strong consensus-building, cross-functional leadership, coaching, mentoring, and stakeholder-influence skills.
- Ability to self-direct, manage time, and advocate for resources supporting engineering velocity and platform stability.
About Rubrik
Rubrik builds an enterprise data security and backup platform that protects and recovers data, identities, and workloads across on-prem, public clouds, and SaaS. Its Rubrik Security Cloud delivers backup, ransomware detection and recovery, and policy management, sold primarily by subscription with professional services. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker RBRK.