Rubrik

Rubrik

Staff Software Engineer - Reliability (US Citizen Only)

Palo Alto, CA · Staff+

Work authorization required$218k-$328kDetected 7 days ago
PythonJavaGoDistributed SystemsData StructuresMySQLCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformLinuxPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringLLMsCybersecurityIncident ResponseComplianceForecastingAuditingSystems EngineeringLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will serve as a primary technical leader and architect across our broader distributed cloud systems.
  • You will be the technical leader and project owner for Application-SRE: setting direction, tracking commitments, and ensuring the team operates as a high-leverage bridge between the field and the broader engineering org.
  • The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the role based on U.S. location.

Responsibilities

  • Hyperscale Automation & Platform Tooling: Build, scale, and maintain sophisticated custom internal tools, platform controllers, and automation frameworks in Go or Python to systematically eliminate operational toil.
  • AI for SRE & Engineering Productivity: Drive the adoption of AI-driven solutions across the SRE charter to compress toil and multiply the org - applying agentic and LLM-based approaches to automated triage, incident response, operational analysis, and developer productivity.
  • AI Adoption Guardrails for SaaS Reliability: Build the guardrails, controls, and platform patterns that keep Rubrik's SaaS reliable as AI adoption accelerates across product and engineering, ensuring new AI capabilities ship without eroding availability, performance, security, or cost posture.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Wield engineering-wide influence to create technical consensus among component, platform, and security engineering teams, effectively "shifting left" to embed structural resilience, capacity guards, and compliance from initial feature designs.
  • Incident Command & Operations Review: Serve as a primary Incident Commander for high-severity cloud outages, establishing roles, directing mitigation vectors under pressure, and orchestrating comprehensive, blameless post-mortems that drive durable systemic fixes.
  • Technical Depth: Comprehensive, hands-on programming expertise in Golang, Python, or Java with a deep grasp of concurrency models, data structures, and test-driven software design patterns.
  • Field-to-Product Feedback Loop: Institutionalize the channel that converts patterns from customer escalations and POCs into prioritized product and reliability feedback, partnering directly with Product, Sales Engineering and Support leadership.
  • Drive the adoption of AI-driven solutions across the SRE charter to compress toil and multiply the org - applying agentic and LLM-based approaches to automated triage, incident response, operational analysis, and developer productivity.
  • Build the guardrails, controls, and platform patterns that keep Rubrik's SaaS reliable as AI adoption accelerates across product and engineering, ensuring new AI capabilities ship without eroding availability, performance, security, or cost posture.
  • Comprehensive, hands-on programming expertise in Golang, Python, or Java with a deep grasp of concurrency models, data structures, and test-driven software design patterns.

Requirements

  • Must be a US Citizen currently residing on CONUS soil (strict regulatory requirement to enable support for federal and FedRAMP environments when required).
  • A minimum of 8-12+ years of software engineering and production cloud infrastructure experience, with at least 5+ years dedicated to a formal SRE, DevOps, or Platform engineering role operating hyperscale SaaS products.
  • Proven proficiency designing, deploying, analyzing, and auditing complex, large-scale distributed systems, database topologies, and high-availability public cloud meshes.
  • Working knowledge of operating AI systems in production - including model serving, cost trade-offs, and the reliability and safety considerations of LLM- and agent-based workloads.
  • Citizenship & Residency: Must be a US Citizen currently residing on CONUS soil (strict regulatory requirement to enable support for federal and FedRAMP environments when required).
  • Distributed Systems Expertise: Proven proficiency designing, deploying, analyzing, and auditing complex, large-scale distributed systems, database topologies, and high-availability public cloud meshes.

Nice to have

  • Extensive production experience provisioning, lifecycle-managing, and recovering enterprise-scale Kubernetes (GKE, EKS) deployments and large-scale relational/non-relational databases (MySQL).
  • Familiarity with the operational considerations of running AI workloads on cloud and Kubernetes platforms.
  • The minimum and maximum base salaries for this role are posted below
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Compensation

  • 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.

Benefits

  • Formulate and execute the architectural vision for Rubrik's Cloud Platform, optimizing backend infrastructure systems like Kubernetes, MySQL, and cloud-native services for performance, security, and multi-region scale.
  • Education: BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a highly related technical discipline.

Company info

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
  • Rubrik is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
  • Rubrik provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
  • In addition to federal law requirements, Rubrik complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
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  • 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.

Equal opportunity

  • Employer/Veterans/Disabled
  • Rubrik is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
  • Rubrik provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Rubrik complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applie

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Citizenship & Residency: Must be a US Citizen currently residing on CONUS soil (strict regulatory requirement to enable support for federal and FedRAMP environments when required)
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