Senior Engineering Manager

Rubrik Rubrik · Enterprise · Palo Alto, CA · Engineering

Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Kubernetes engineering team, focusing on data management products for Kubernetes workloads and VMs on Kubernetes. The role involves mentoring engineers, defining roadmaps, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. While the core focus is on Kubernetes data protection, the team is also tasked with driving motivation to embrace AI and the company positions itself at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration, with a specific product line for AI agent deployments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Mentor your team and collaborate effectively with cross-functional leaders.
  2. Partner closely with the Product Manager and Technical Leads to define the team’s roadmap.
  3. Work in conjunction with Support and Sales to ensure customer success.
  4. Continuously evolve our product while driving the team's motivation to embrace the world of AI.

Skills

Required

  • managing software engineering teams
  • distributed systems
  • databases
  • Kubernetes
  • data protection

Nice to have

  • growth mindset
  • technical curiosity
  • resilient distributed systems and services
  • collaboration and communication skills
  • high quality engineering practices and processes
  • product manager
  • customers
  • VM protection
  • AI

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of experience in engineering
  • 3+ years of managing software engineering teams
  • Managing teams in dynamic, fast-paced startup-like environments