Rubrik

Senior AI API Platform Engineer

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5 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and own APIs using REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and webhooks across suitable languages, cloud services, and iPaaS platforms.
  • Build secure, scalable, high-performance backend and full-stack services for AI use cases, including LLM tools, AI agents, RAG, and agentic workflows.
  • Define API governance covering versioning, documentation, authentication, error handling, observability, and reusable frameworks.
  • Establish non-functional requirements and service-level agreements for availability, latency, throughput, reliability, AI cost, rate limiting, and safety.
  • Lead technical discovery, architecture and code reviews, mentoring, and stakeholder discussions for API, integration, and AI-enablement initiatives.
  • Drive reuse through shared APIs, connectors, SDKs, and an integration catalog.
  • Partner with security and compliance teams on regulatory, auditability, and change-control requirements.
  • Evaluate event-driven integration, AI-agent frameworks, and low-code automation patterns for the platform roadmap.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of API, full-stack, or backend development across multiple languages and clouds.
  • 2+ years in a senior, lead, or architect capacity owning API and platform designs for complex enterprise-scale systems.
  • 1+ year of experience in an FDE role working directly with internal customers.
  • Deep API expertise, including REST, contract-first design, OpenAPI/Swagger, robust error handling, API gateways, and API testing with Postman.
  • Strong backend and full-stack experience with Node.js, Java, Python, or Go, plus cloud and iPaaS platforms such as MuleSoft, Workato, and Boomi.
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP; serverless development; Kubernetes; and infrastructure as code.
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL database design, JSON, XML, CSV, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS, secrets management, Git-based workflows, and CI/CD.
  • Experience integrating SaaS platforms such as NetSuite, Workday, Salesforce, or Snowflake.
  • Experience building APIs for AI consumption, including function- or tool-calling interfaces for LLMs and agents.
  • Working knowledge of OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, vector databases, AI-specific NFRs, and enterprise API integration.
  • Practical experience using AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code.
  • Working knowledge of DevOps practices and toolchains, networking fundamentals, and VPN/VPC concepts.
  • Preferred qualifications include cloud or iPaaS certifications, regulated-environment experience such as SOX or FedRAMP, familiarity with Kafka, EventBridge, or Event Hubs, and production experience with AI agents, copilots, or LLM-powered features.
  • Ability to lead without authority and communicate solutions and trade-offs to technical and business stakeholders.
Rubrik

About Rubrik

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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