Rubrik: Senior Software Engineer - Enterprise AI — Bangalore

About Rubrik

Rubrik provides data-security and resilience technology for organisations facing cyberattacks, malicious activity and operational disruption. Its recruitment material discusses protecting enterprise information, including data held in business software and cloud environments. The described portfolio includes security and protection for SaaS applications, with attention to access, backup and recovery. Its business connects the technical handling of information with an organisation's ability to keep critical data protected and to recover when normal operations are disrupted.

The position and its setting

Rubrik lists Senior Software Engineer - Enterprise AI in Bangalore, under reference 8273699. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Information Technology & Services
• Employer listing date: 13 October 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• We are hiring a Senior Software Developer to design, build, and operate the platform and backend systems that power Rubrik at scale
• Own core infrastructure, spanning Kubernetes, cloud-native services, APIs, and developer tooling
• 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 raise the bar for the entire engineering organization
• 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 and/or GCP for scale, reliability, and performance
• Drive engineering excellence through code quality standards, design reviews, automation, and CI/CD best practices
• Collaboration: 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

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend and infrastructure development, with a record of delivering and running production systems
• Hands-on coding in C++, Go, or Java, plus working fluency in Python, with production code beyond scripts and configs
• Grounding in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and memory management
• Someone who has built applied AI tooling (e.g., Claude, LiteLLM, AI gateways, agent frameworks) and the ability to build backend services that integrate with them
• Experience designing distributed systems (consistency, replication, fault tolerance, scalability), with system design and architectural judgment
• Familiarity: storage and database systems (SQL, NoSQL, key-value, file/object storage)
• Experience building and operating container clusters (Docker, Kubernetes), not just deploying to them
• Cloud-native fluency on AWS or GCP (compute, storage, IAM, networking, managed services)
• Hands-on infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines
• Debugging, profiling, and performance-tuning skills
• Clear written and verbal communication, including design docs, and effective partnership across product, security, and AI teams

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Observability stacks — Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry
• Multi-cloud or hybrid infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, on-prem)
• Familiarity: API gateways, AI gateways, and policy/authorization frameworks (ABAC,
• OPA)
• Service mesh or platform-as-a-service design experience
• Track record of improving engineering productivity at scale

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Advertised location: Bangalore

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Rubrik

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Practical preparation: Python

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Relevant skills

• Python
• Java
• C++
• SQL
• NoSQL
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• Docker
• AWS
• GCP
• APIs
• AI/ML
• Google Cloud