Software Engineer - Systems Engineering

The Systems Engineering team within the Developer Platform organization is pivotal in ensuring the reliability and robustness of Rubrik's products. Our mission is to empower these products to excel in demanding use cases by rigorously focusing on key software reliability dimensions—stress, scale, longevity and resilience—through close collaboration with product component teams, product management, and release managers to integrate reliability early and ensure high-quality releases for our end customers.

The key responsibility of the team includes:

• Drive release reliability certification for Rubrik Cloud Data Management and Rubrik Security Cloud-Private products.
• Architect and build scalable infrastructure and efficient pipelines for stress, scale and resilience/chaos testing.
• Develop and deploy simulators to optimize cost efficiency and accelerate testing.
• Enable Product teams with self-service tools and infrastructure for their validation needs.
• Maintain and evolve long-running, customer-like environments to proactively identify potential issues.

As a Software Engineer in the Systems Engineering team at Rubrik, you will be developing tools, frameworks and services which will enable engineering teams to ensure reliability and robustness of Rubrik products. If you enjoy working with distributed systems, are curious to learn complex architectures and love tackling challenges then come join us! Rubrik Software engineers are self-starters and driven. We believe in giving engineers responsibility, not tasks.

Our goal is to motivate and challenge people to do their best work.

• Design & build infrastructure automation to enable on-demand building of complex product deployments similar to customer deployments and system stress/performance pipelines.
• Develop and enhance tools for monitoring, alerting and telemetry of customer-like deployments.
• Develop solutions for auto-triage and RCA of failures using AI technologies and self-healing of errors.
• Work with team members on detailed and constructive design and code reviews.

• BS or MS in Computer science or related field with a minimum of 3+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Solid programming skills in one or more programming languages (Python preferred).
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, including quickly getting up to speed with new technologies.
• Building AI based applications/workflows using LLMs.
• Working knowledge of virtualization, container technologies, storage, database, network.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform/AWS/Azure or other public cloud technologies.

• Building high scale & performant products.
• Knowledge of CI/CD solutions like Jenkins, Ansible, ELK.

US Pay Range

$152,400 — $228,700 USD

Rubrik (RBRK), the Security and AI company, operates at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience and enterprise AI acceleration. The Rubrik Security Cloud platform is designed to deliver robust cyber resilience and recovery including identity resilience to ensure continuous business operations, all on top of secure metadata and data lake. Rubrik’s offerings also include Predibase to help further secure and deploy GenAI while delivering exceptional accuracy and efficiency for agentic applications.

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.

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