Staff Engineer- Cloud Native Protection

Rubrik
Bangalore Posted 24 February 2026

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<h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About the Team</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Rubrik Cloud Native Protection team helps customers secure their data on the cloud. Cloud data is growing at an ever growing pace and so are the risks with cyber attacks targeted towards cloud data. We make it easy for businesses to protect, search, analyze all of their cloud data simply and scalably. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Cloud Native Protection is one of the fastest growing businesses and teams within Rubrik. We consider ourselves a startup inside a startup! Join us in this journey where there are ever widening avenues to explore, opportunities to innovate, deep engineering problems to tackle. We believe in fostering a culture with strong engineering values and teamwork as the key to building a great company and product.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Some recent/ongoing projects include:</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Delivering platform security for major enterprises applying security best practices to help our customers with Rubrik as a last line of defense</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Developing a platform for protecting relational PaaS databases across clouds. </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">As a <strong>Staff Software Engineer</strong>, you will play a key role as a technical leader—driving architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and delivering highly scalable distributed services. You will work across teams to solve complex technical challenges and ensure Rubrik continues to set the industry benchmark in data security and protection.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What you’ll do</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lead the design and development of cloud-native services for backup, recovery, and security of workloads.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Own and drive end-to-end initiatives from architecture to production deployment and scale.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Collaborate with Product Management and Architecture teams to define and evolve the technical roadmap.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Guide engineers on best practices for distributed systems, scalability, and resiliency in cloud environments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Evaluate new technologies, design patterns, and frameworks to continuously improve system performance and reliability.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mentor and coach engineers, raising the technical bar for the entire team.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Troubleshoot complex customer issues across cloud and hybrid deployments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Champion automation, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native observability for high-quality releases.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Experience you’ll need</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or equivalent with strong problem-solving skills.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">11+ years of experience in building large-scale, distributed enterprise or cloud-native software.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong fundamentals in distributed<strong> systems, and cloud-native design</strong>.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Deep expertise in programming languages such as <strong>Java, Go, or Python</strong>.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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