Senior AI API Platform Engineer

The AI API Platform Engineer is a hands-on technical lead who designs and builds the APIs and platform capabilities powering Rubriks AI-driven products and automation owning the full API lifecycle across any stack cloud or iPaaS. This role delivers secure scalable high-performance APIs and full-stack services while enabling AI-native consumption patterns across the enterprise.

• Design and own APIs in any tech stack - REST GraphQL gRPC and webhooks - choosing the right language cloud service or iPaaS for each use case.
• Build for AI use cases exposing data/services as tools for LLMs and AI agents and enabling RAG and agentic workflows.
• Own core backend engineering in / Java / Python / Go with strong data modeling and performance tuning.
• Define API governance - versioning documentation standards and reusable auth/error-handling/observability frameworks.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews code reviews and mentoring of engineers.
• Define NFRs and SLAs for availability latency throughput and reliability and ensure designs meet them.
• Partner with security and compliance to meet regulatory and audit requirements across APIs and integrations.
• Lead technical discovery for new API integration and AI-enablement initiatives with product and business stakeholders.
• Drive reuse and standardization through shared APIs connectors SDKs and an integration catalog.
• Evaluate emerging patterns (event-driven integration AI agent frameworks low-code automation) to shape the platform roadmap.

• 8 years of software engineering experience with 5 years in API/full-stack/backend development across multiple languages and clouds.
• 2 years in a senior/lead/architect capacity owning API and platform designs for complex enterprise-scale systems.
• 1 years in an FDE role working directly with internal customers.

• Deep API expertise across REST including contract-first design (OpenAPI/Swagger) and robust error handling.
• Strong backend and full-stack skills in / Java / Python / Go plus platform-agnostic experience across cloud and iPaaS (MuleSoft Workato Boomi).
• Cloud-native development on AWS Azure or GCP including serverless Kubernetes and infrastructure as code.
• Strong data skills - SQL and NoSQL database design plus integration data formats (JSON XML CSV).
• Secure API design using OAuth 2.0/OIDC mTLS and secrets management with solid CI/CD and Git-based workflows.
• SaaS integration experience with platforms such as NetSuite Workday Salesforce or Snowflake.
• API Gateway expertise with platforms such as Kong / Apigee / AWS API Gateway / Azure APIM / MuleSoft API Gateway for routing rate limiting and policy enforcement.
• API testing proficiency using tools such as Postman for functional and regression testing
• Networking fundamentals including VPN/VPC concepts.
• Working knowledge of DevOps practices and toolchains.

• Hands-on experience with the AI-assisted SDLC - using AI tools to design build test and manage APIs.
• Experience building APIs for AI consumption including function/tool-calling interfaces for LLMs and agents.
• Working knowledge of AI/LLM frameworks (OpenAI Anthropic LangChain) and vector databases and how they integrate with enterprise APIs.
• Understanding of AI-specific NFRs - latency cost rate limiting and safety/guardrails.
• Practical experience with AI coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot Cursor Claude Code) for AI assisted platform and infrastructure development.

• Proven ability to lead without authority driving technical decisions through clarity and data.
• Excellent communication skills presenting solutions and trade-offs to technical and business stakeholders.

• Cloud or iPaaS certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP MuleSoft Workato or Boomi).
• Experience in regulated environments (SOX FedRAMP) with strong auditability and change control.
• Familiarity with event-driven/streaming platforms (Kafka EventBridge Event Hubs).
• Hands-on exposure to AI agents copilots or LLM-powered features in production.

Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) is the Security and AI Operations Company delivering one platform built at the intersection of data identity and AI. The platform enables agentic cyber resilience and trusted AI operations for enterprises worldwide built to recover before disruption strikes and stay a step ahead so security is never the reason ambition stalls.

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