Senior Engineering Manager - Systems Engineering

About the Team:

The Systems Engineering team within the Developer Platform organization is pivotal in ensuring the reliability and robustness of Rubrik's products. Our mission is to empower these products to excel in demanding use cases by rigorously focusing on key software reliability dimensions—stress, scale, longevity, and resilience—through close collaboration with product component teams, product management, and release managers to integrate reliability early and ensure high-quality releases for our end customers.

The key responsibility of the team includes:

• Drive release reliability certification for Rubrik Cloud Data Management and Rubrik Security Cloud-Private products.
• Architect and build scalable infrastructure and efficient pipelines for stress, scale, and resilience/chaos testing.
• Develop and deploy simulators to optimize cost efficiency and accelerate testing.
• Enable component teams with self-service tools and infrastructure for their validation needs.
• Maintain and evolve long-running, customer-like environments to proactively identify potential issues.

What you'll do:

As the Senior Engineering Manager for the Systems Engineering team, you will spearhead the strategy and execution for ensuring the reliability of Rubrik's flagship products. Your responsibilities include:

• Collaborate closely with Release Managers, Product Management, and component teams to ensure rigorous certification of product releases and drive the systemic validation of new features throughout the development lifecycle.
• Champion customer advocacy and product quality by fostering a 'shift left' testing culture and leading the development and adoption of self-service infrastructure, tools, and efficient processes.
• Drive significant improvements in team efficiency and reduce operational overhead, including cloud costs and human toil, by championing automation, exploring the application of AI, and strategically building and utilizing simulators.

Experience you'll need:

You are a highly motivated and results-oriented leader with a deep passion for enterprise products, building and nurturing high-performing teams, and ensuring exceptional software quality and reliability. You bring: 

• A minimum of 15 years of progressive experience in the software industry, including significant hands-on experience in developing and successfully delivering enterprise-grade products as both an individual contributor and a manager.
• A minimum of 5 years of proven experience leading and managing teams of software or systems engineers, with a strong track record of successfully delivering high-quality enterprise product releases.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing the quality and release processes for complex enterprise platform components.

Join Us in Securing the World's Data

Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) is on a mission to secure the world’s data. With Zero Trust Data Security™, we help organizations achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions. Rubrik Security Cloud, powered by machine learning, secures data across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS applications. We help organizations uphold data integrity, deliver data availability that withstands adverse conditions, continuously monitor data risks and threats, and restore businesses with their data when infrastructure is attacked.

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At Rubrik, we are dedicated to fostering a culture where people from all backgrounds are valued, feel they belong, and believe they can succeed. Our commitment to inclusion is at the heart of our mission to secure the world’s data.

Our goal is to hire and promote the best talent, regardless of background. We continually review our hiring practices to ensure fairness and strive to create an environment where every employee has equal access to opportunities for growth and excellence. We believe in empowering everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and achieve their fullest potential.

Our inclusion strategy focuses on three core areas of our business and culture:

• Our Company: We are committed to building a merit-based organization that offers equal access to growth and success for all employees globally. Your potential is limitless here.

• Our Culture: We strive to create an inclusive atmosphere where individuals from all backgrounds feel a strong sense of belonging, can thrive, and do their best work. Your contributions help us innovate and break boundaries.

• Our Communities: We are dedicated to expanding our engagement with the communities we operate in, creating opportunities for underrepresented talent and driving greater innovation for our clients. Your impact extends beyond Rubrik, contributing to safer and stronger communities.

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