Job Summary
About the team
The Enterprise AI team is Rubriks internal AI enablement engine. We evaluate where AI can make a real difference build the platforms and patterns that make adoption easy and help engineering teams across the organization work smarter and faster. We operate at the intersection of applied AI distributed systems and enterprise operations. Our job is to make Rubrik more efficient one AI-powered workflow at a time. This is a high-impact high-autonomy team where youll work closely with engineering product and operations teams across Rubrik to bring AI capabilities to life.
About the role
Were hiring a StaffSr. Software Developer to design build and operate the platform and backend systems that power Rubrik at scale. Youll own core infrastructure - from Kubernetes and cloud-native services to APIs and developer tooling - and work closely with product AI and security teams. This is a hands-on high-ownership role where you write production code design systems lead code reviews and make the engineering organization more effective.
What youll do
Own end-to-end delivery of major platform initiatives from design through deployment and post-launch success. Own Kubernetes at depth - clusters networking operators container lifecycle and multi-tenant orchestration. Design develop and optimize distributed services and cloud-native infrastructure on AWS andor GCP for scale reliability and performance. Drive engineering excellence through code quality standards design reviews automation and CICD best practices. Collaborate across teams - Product AI and Security - to align architecture with business objectives. Be a mentor and multiplier guiding engineers through architecture decisions trade-offs and delivery. Partner with leadership to align engineering strategy with product objectives and technical roadmap.
Experience youll need
6 years of software engineering with deep backend and infrastructure focus. Strong programming skills in Python andor Go - you ship production code not just scripts and configs. Deep hands-on Kubernetes experience - building and operating clusters not just deploying to them. Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems in production. Cloud-native fluency across AWS andor GCP - compute storage IAM networking and managed services. Experience with infrastructure-as-code Terraform or similar and CICD pipelines. Familiarity with applied AI tooling and patterns - agentic AI tools Claude LiteLLM AI gateways agent frameworks - and being able to build backend services that integrate with them. Strong system design and architectural judgment. Clear communicator who partners well across product security and AI teams.
Preferred qualifications
Observability stacks - Prometheus Grafana Datadog OpenTelemetry. Multi-cloud or hybrid infrastructure experience AWS GCP on-prem. Familiarity with API gateways AI gateways and policyauthorization frameworks ABAC OPA. Service mesh or platform-as-a-service design experience. Track record of improving engineering productivity at scale.
The minimum and maximum base salaries for this role are posted below additionally the role is eligible for bonus potential equity and benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the role based on U.S. location. Within the range the salary offered will be determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills experience and relevant education or training.
US Pay Range218300-327500 USD
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