Senior Software Engineer - API Infrastructure

Rubrik Rubrik · Enterprise · Palo Alto, CA · Engineering

Senior Software Engineer focused on building the foundational API infrastructure for Rubrik's products, connecting distributed SaaS and on-prem deployments. The role involves designing and implementing the next generation of APIs, SDKs, and frameworks, ensuring scalability, security, and performance for enterprise-level integrations and automation. Responsibilities include defining API strategy, driving the technical roadmap, and promoting API hygiene across engineering teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work with product managers and customer solution architects to understand the needs of our most sophisticated customers
  2. Design and implement the nextgen of Rubrik’s API ecosystem that’s loved by developers and maintainers alike
  3. Engage with Rubrik’s own developers to improve and simplify their API development experience
  4. Spearhead the API hygiene
  5. Define and drive adoption of design patterns, coding, and quality standards and software development processes in our API stacks

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • Applied knowledge of API design principles and best practices (GraphQL, REST, OpenAPI, Swagger)
  • Experience in development of the SDKs and APIs at an enterprise scale, taking into consideration security, performance, and application development

What the JD emphasized

  • API design principles
  • best practices
  • enterprise scale