StaffSr Information Security Engineer

The Information Security organization advances the overall state of security at Rubrik through critical initiatives and coordination of large security programs. Information Security builds technologies tools and processes to better enable teams at Rubrik to develop secure software and protect data and systems with appropriate security controls. Information Security also develops systems to monitor and respond to attacks against our systems provides awareness education to teams on security best practices for data protection and ensures data sharing relationships with third parties securely protect Rubrik information.

We are seeking a Staff Security Engineer or Sr Security Engineer to serve as a technical anchor across the Information Security organization. You will own the architectural direction of our Security Data platform while simultaneously driving cross-functional security initiatives that span multiple teams and domains. This is a high-leverage hands-on role that blends deep technical execution with organization-wide influence shaping how Rubrik detects responds to and learns from threats at scale.

You will be the go-to technical leader for complex ambiguous problems that cut across team boundaries setting standards and raising the engineering bar across SecEng.

Define and own the long-term architecture of Rubriks Security Data infrastructure. Drive the evolution from SIEM-centric operations toward a composable Security Data Lake (Snowflake BigQuery Databricks) ensuring the platform is scalable cost-efficient and fit-for-purpose for SOC Threat Detection GRC and Compliance workloads. Establish data quality standards schema governance and ingestion SLAs across all security telemetry pipelines.

Partner with Threat Detection Security Operations GRC Product Security and Cloud Security teams to define shared platforms resolve architectural dependencies and drive alignment on cross-cutting technical decisions. Own the how we build as much as the what we build.

Define and champion engineering best practices across SecEng: code quality observability incident readiness cost management and security-by-design. Conduct architecture reviews for major initiatives across teams. Mentor Junior engineers accelerating their technical growth through code reviews design feedback and pairing.

Lead the design and delivery of AI-driven security capabilities. Build and productionize AI agents that automate Tier 1/2 SecOps workflows including alert triage incident investigation enrichment and response. Evaluate and integrate LLMs and GenAI tooling to create force-multiplying capabilities across the security organization.

Drive alignment across Engineering Product IT and Legal on security platform roadmaps data governance and compliance requirements. Represent InfoSec in cross-functional technical forums. Translate ambiguous business requirements into concrete technical strategies that multiple teams can execute against.

Own the deployment and lifecycle of security tooling across cloud environments (AWS GCP Azure). Drive Terraform-based IaC practices manage Kubernetes-based security sidecars and policies and ensure platform reliability through SLOs and automated runbooks.

Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex Security Operations challenges: SIEM/SOAR health major incident response vendor evaluations and architectural POCs. Drive post-incident technical reviews that produce durable improvements to detection and response capabilities.

• Experience: 12 years in Security Engineering with deep expertise in Security Data Management Detection Engineering or Security Operations and demonstrated impact beyond a single team or domain.
• Technical Breadth: Proven ability to drive architectural decisions across multiple security domains (e.g. SIEM data platforms cloud security detection). Comfortable owning end-to-end technical strategy not just implementation.
• AI Fluency: Demonstrated experience leveraging AI/LLMs to meaningfully improve SecOps outcomes from rapid prototyping to production-grade agentic workflows.
• SIEM & SOAR Mastery: Deep hands-on expertise with at least one enterprise SIEM (Splunk Microsoft Sentinel Elastic) and a SOAR platform (Splunk SOAR Palo Alto XSOAR or equivalent).
• Security Data Platforms: Proven experience architecting and operating large-scale data platforms (Snowflake BigQuery Databricks). Experience with platforms handling 50100 TB/day is strongly preferred.
• Programming: Strong proficiency in Python; experience with data pipeline and orchestration frameworks (Spark Airflow or equivalent).
• Cloud Infrastructure: Strong multi-cloud experience (AWS GCP Azure); IaC fluency with Terraform.
• Communication: Ability to synthesize complex technical topics for both engineering and executive audiences; experience influencing without authority across organizational boundaries.

• Experience defining or contributing to a Security Data strategy at the organizational level.
• Hands-on background in Threat Detection engineering (detection-as-code MITRE ATT&CK coverage mapping).
• Familiarity with data mesh or open table formats (Iceberg Delta Lake) in a security context.
• Experience leading or contributing to major security incident response (e.g. supply chain nation-state ransomware).
• Exposure to compliance frameworks (SOC 2 ISO 27001 FedRAMP) and how they intersect with security data retention and access controls.
• Background in building internal security platforms or developer-facing security tooling.
• Experience in container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE) and CI/CD security integrations.

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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