Staff Engineer- Cloud Native Protection

About the Team

The Rubrik Cloud Native Protection team helps customers secure their data on the cloud. Cloud data is growing at an ever growing pace and so are the risks with cyber attacks targeted towards cloud data.  We make it easy for businesses to protect, search, analyze all of their cloud data simply and scalably. 

Cloud Native Protection is one of the fastest growing businesses and teams within Rubrik.  We consider ourselves a startup inside a startup!  Join us in this journey where there are ever widening avenues to explore, opportunities to innovate, deep engineering problems to tackle.  We believe in fostering a culture with strong engineering values and teamwork as the key to building a great company and product.

Some recent/ongoing projects include:

• Delivering platform security for major enterprises applying security best practices to help our customers with Rubrik as a last line of defense


• Developing a platform for protecting relational PaaS databases across clouds. 

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role as a technical leader—driving architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and delivering highly scalable distributed services. You will work across teams to solve complex technical challenges and ensure Rubrik continues to set the industry benchmark in data security and protection.

What you’ll do

• Lead the design and development of cloud-native services for backup, recovery, and security of workloads.


• Own and drive end-to-end initiatives from architecture to production deployment and scale.


• Collaborate with Product Management and Architecture teams to define and evolve the technical roadmap.


• Guide engineers on best practices for distributed systems, scalability, and resiliency in cloud environments.


• Evaluate new technologies, design patterns, and frameworks to continuously improve system performance and reliability.


• Mentor and coach engineers, raising the technical bar for the entire team.


• Troubleshoot complex customer issues across cloud and hybrid deployments.


• Champion automation, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native observability for high-quality releases.

Experience you’ll need

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or equivalent with strong problem-solving skills.


• 11+ years of experience in building large-scale, distributed enterprise or cloud-native software.


• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, and cloud-native design.


• Deep expertise in programming languages such as Java, Go, or Python.


• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their native services.


• Solid understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, and event-driven architectures.


• Proven track record of leading technical design/architecture discussions and shipping scalable, resilient systems.


• Experience mentoring engineers and driving cross-team technical initiatives.


• Exposure to storage, backup/recovery, security, or observability systems is a strong plus.

Join Us in Securing and Accelerating the World's AI Transformation

Rubrik (RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes. 

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Inclusion @ Rubrik

At Rubrik, we are dedicated to fostering a culture where people from all backgrounds are valued, feel they belong, and believe they can succeed. Our commitment to inclusion is at the heart of our mission to secure the world’s data.

Our goal is to hire and promote the best talent, regardless of background. We continually review our hiring practices to ensure fairness and strive to create an environment where every employee has equal access to opportunities for growth and excellence. We believe in empowering everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and achieve their fullest potential.

Our inclusion strategy focuses on three core areas of our business and culture:

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  Our Company: We are committed to building a merit-based organization that offers equal access to growth and success for all employees globally. Your potential is limitless here.

  
  


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  Our Culture: We strive to create an inclusive atmosphere where individuals from all backgrounds feel a strong sense of belonging, can thrive, and do their best work. Your contributions help us innovate and break boundaries.

  
  


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  Our Communities: We are dedicated to expanding our engagement with the communities we operate in, creating opportunities for underrepresented talent and driving greater innovation for our clients. Your impact extends beyond Rubrik, contributing to safer and stronger communities.

  
  

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