Staff Software Engineer
About The Role
We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our R&D team as a founding engineer for a brand-new product initiative at the site, focusing on the Identity, Non-Human Identity and AI Agents Security space. You will work closely with product and engineering leadership to architect, build, and scale our unique product offering. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will lead the design of scalable, fault-tolerant systems that discover, analyze, and secure identities across complex enterprise environments.
What You'll Be Doing
- Architect, design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain robust distributed software systems at scale.
- Serve as the technical lead and domain expert for our new Identity and Non-Human Identity Security offering, guiding technical direction and cross-engineer collaboration.
- Partner closely with product management and leadership to align technical architecture with long-term business and product objectives.
- Build data pipelines that analyze, classify, correlate, and evaluate non-human identity tokens and permissions at enterprise scale.
- Design extensible, plug-and-play architectures optimized for high integration velocity, making it seamless and effortless to onboard new SaaS platforms (e.g., GitHub, Slack, Salesforce).
- Take end-to-end technical accountability, from early system design trade-offs to ensuring high availability, performance, and fault tolerance in production.
- Act as a technical multiplier and mentor, conducting design reviews, setting engineering standards, and elevating the capabilities of the team.
- Drive continuous innovation across our software stack to solve complex, emerging security challenges.
- Work in a high-velocity, agile environment that balances rapid execution with architectural excellence.
Requirements
- 9+ years of experience in software engineering with a deep focus on backend architectures and distributed systems.
- Proven track record of designing, building, and operating production-grade, cloud-native backend systems.
- Experience building cloud-native products on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong experience building distributed architectures using messaging and streaming frameworks (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, Celery).
- Strong database modeling and query experience with SQL Databases.
Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and gRPC services.
- Hands-on experience with asynchronous programming models (e.g., asyncio, Goroutines) and production programming languages (e.g., Python, Go).
- Strong system design judgment with a track record of driving cross-team technical alignment and mentoring engineers.
- Experience in the Cybersecurity domain, specifically Identity & Access Management (IAM), Secret Management, or Non-Human Identity Security- advantage.
- B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field (or relevant military experience) - advantage.
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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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:
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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