Staff Software Engineer

Were 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• . in Computer Science Software Engineering or related technical field (or relevant military experience) - advantage.

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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