Senior Engineering Manager - Sre (est Time Zone)

Rubrik Rubrik · Enterprise · Bangalore, India · Engineering

Senior Engineering Manager for Production Engineering at Rubrik, focusing on leading a team responsible for the availability and reliability of mission-critical platforms in multi-cloud environments. The role involves spearheading technical roadmap, strategy, and execution, managing incident response, and fostering a metrics-driven culture of continuous improvement. Experience in leading SRE teams and building distributed systems is preferred. The company emphasizes its role in AI Operations and accelerating AI agent deployments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead Production Engineering team supporting critical infrastructure and services across multi-cloud environments. This role requires you to work in EST timezone (4:00 PM – 1:00 AM IST).
  2. Own operational excellence for production environments by establishing strong processes, standards, and accountability for availability and reliability.
  3. Champion a metrics-driven culture of continuous improvement, driving initiatives to improve operational KPIs such as MTTA/MTTR.
  4. Foster a strong collaborative mindset working closely with leadership to align operational priorities with business goals and reliability targets.
  5. Develop team members through coaching, mentoring, and career development, while enabling senior contributors to operate at maximum impact.

Skills

Required

  • Leadership
  • Team building
  • Technical roadmap and strategy
  • Incident response
  • Operational excellence
  • Distributed systems
  • Cross-geo collaboration
  • Stakeholder communication

Nice to have

  • SRE team leadership
  • Multi-cloud environments
  • Metrics-driven improvement
  • On-call rotation management
  • Sprint planning and prioritization

What the JD emphasized

  • 12+ years of Software Development experience and 3+ years in Engineering Management roles
  • Experience leading SRE teams
  • enterprise-quality scalable Distributed Systems