Senior Software Engineer - DSPM

ABOUT TEAM

The Rubrik Engineering team is comprised of people who produce extraordinary results. Our engineers are driven to build efficient, reliable, and cost effective products. We believe in empowering our teams, giving engineers autonomy and responsibility, not just tasks. Our goal is to motivate and challenge you to do the best work of your career. As part of the Rubrik Engineering team, you will work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define the next generation of products for Rubrik. At Rubrik, nothing will stop you from thinking big. We are looking for individuals who are comfortable with ambiguity and excited by the prospect of a challenge. If you have a positive attitude, high energy and limitless drive, and like to win, we want to talk to you!

The Vision team is composed of highly skilled engineers dedicated to developing Rubrik's data security products, primarily focusing on malware detection with the broader org looking into ransomware detection, sensitive data discovery, and user intelligence. Our malware detection is built on top of our state-of-the-art homegrown analyzer and we let our customers trigger hunts for malware inside their data - while also having an automated passive system for continuous monitoring. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies and tools, we strive to deliver innovative solutions to secure the world’s data.

 

ABOUT THE JOB

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our core engineering team. You will be integral to designing, building, and optimizing the foundational distributed systems and high-throughput data platforms. This role operates in a fast-paced, results-driven environment where team boundaries are intentionally blurred, requiring you to seamlessly pivot between backend service development, data pipeline construction, and infrastructure automation. The ideal candidate thrives on ownership, collaboration, and rapid iteration.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Design and Architect: Lead the design and implementation of highly available, fault-tolerant, and performant distributed data pipelines and services. Apply principles of consensus, replication, and eventual consistency.
• Rapid Development & Iteration: Own features end-to-end, from concept to deployment. Participate in an agile, high-velocity delivery cycle, quickly adapting to evolving business needs.
• System Fundamentals & Optimization: Apply deep knowledge of operating systems, networking, and concurrency to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the entire stack.
• Cross-Discipline Execution (Blurred Boundaries): Switch effortlessly between traditional backend development (microservices), data engineering (Spark/streaming jobs), and DevOps tasks (CI/CD, container orchestration). "You build it, you run it" is our core philosophy.
• Big Data Engineering: Develop, optimize, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT jobs for massive datasets, ensuring data quality, lineage, and accessibility.
• Mentorship & Code Quality: Drive best practices in coding, testing, and documentation. Conduct thorough code reviews and mentor peers on system design and software principles in a constantly moving environment.

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.US Pay Range$182,100—$273,200 USD

Join Us in Securing the World's Data

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.

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