About the role
The Systems Engineering team in Rubrik's Developer Platform organization owns the reliability of Rubrik Cloud Data Management (CDM) and RSC-P products. Our customers trust Rubrik to recover their data on the worst day of their year. We make sure the software holds up under that pressure, at scale, over months of continuous operation, and in the face of failure. We build the infrastructure and pipelines that let product teams validate stress, scale, longevity and resilience, and we own the call on whether a release is reliable enough to ship. We work with component teams, product management and release managers to build reliability early, rather than inspect for it at the end.
Responsibilities:
- Own release reliability. Be accountable for the reliability call behind every CDM release, and make ship-or-hold decisions with release managers and component leaders.
- Drive the qualification roadmap. Set one roadmap for release workflows and fast build qualification, improving both quality and speed.
- Build self-service platforms. Lead the engineers building our stress, scale, chaos and longevity infrastructure, simulators and long-running environments, so component teams can validate their own work.
- Lead and grow a high-performing team. Build a culture of transparency, innovation and security-first thinking in a fast-paced environment. Hire, coach and retain engineers across geographies.
- Run the team with operational rigour. Set a clear operating rhythm (sprint planning, stand-ups, regular reviews), keep the bar high, give direct feedback and hold the team accountable for delivery.
- Run on metrics. Track certification cycle time, customer-found escapes, triage time and infrastructure cost, and act on them.
- Reimagine reliability in the AI era. Use and promote AI and emerging technologies in the team, in line with the Company and Engineering vision, including AI-driven triage and automation, and measure the results.
- Partner broadly. Align priorities with component leaders, product managers and program managers, and communicate with stakeholders at every level.
Requirements:
- 12+ years in the software industry, with hands-on experience building and delivering enterprise-grade products as both an individual contributor and a manager.
- 3+ years leading teams of software or systems engineers, with a track record of delivering high-quality enterprise releases.
- Technical depth in distributed systems, test infrastructure, or release and reliability engineering.
- Experience hiring and building top-tier teams, including teams spread across geographies.
- Experience building engineering practices, processes and operational rigour.
- Track record of communicating clearly and influencing across engineering, product and executive leadership.
- Ability to execute in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
- AI-forward leadership: proven use of AI to improve your own work and your team's, for example, by building or adopting AI agents and tooling that measurably cut triage time, speed up infrastructure and pipeline delivery, or automate release workflows.