Senior Software Engineer - Hawkeye
RubrikPalo Alto, CAPosted 24 February 2026
Job Description
<p><strong>About Team:</strong><strong><br></strong>The Hawkeye team is primarily responsible for providing the indexing infrastructure required for search, browse and download capabilities for many of the mission critical workloads in Rubrik. VMware, Hyper-V, Fileset are some sample workloads that are protected and managed by Rubrik. The Hawkeye team is also responsible for providing indexing infrastructure for ML based security applications that Rubrik provides to customers. This is one of the most critical services in Rubrik and helps customers locate their data among the large scale and variety of workloads that they protect using Rubrik. </p>
<p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Full stack ownership including design, implementation, and testing of new features that are reliable and performant</li>
<li>Troubleshoot issues experienced by customers and internal product testing, and providing robust solutions</li>
<li>Collaborate with partner teams such as Product Management and Support to define the product vision and roadmap</li>
<li>Nurture team culture, which sets high standards and achieves them through collaboration</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Experience You’ll Need:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>BS or MS in Computer science or related field with 7+ years of relevant work experience </li>
<li>Required experience working with file system internals and low level systems programming.</li>
<li>Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: C/C++, Go, Scala, Python or Java.</li>
<li>Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems design</li>
<li>Enjoy learning new technologies continuously and rapidly reinventing your skill set</li>
<li>Experience working with two or more from the following: Unix/Linux environments, Windows environments, distributed systems, networking, developing software systems, file systems, hypervisors and/or security software development</li>
</ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The minimum and maximum base salaries for this role are posted below; additionally, the role is eligible for bonus potential, equity and benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the role based on U.S. location. 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.</span></div><div class="title">US Pay Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$188,500</span><span class="divider"></span><span>$282,700 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><h2>Join Us in Securing the World's Data</h2>
<p>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. </p>
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<h2>Inclusion @ Rubrik</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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