Staff Engineer- Cloud Native Protection

Rubrik Rubrik · Enterprise · Bangalore, India · Engineering

Staff Engineer role focused on designing and developing cloud-native services for data protection, backup, recovery, and security. The role involves technical leadership, architectural decisions, mentoring, and driving end-to-end initiatives for scalable distributed systems. Experience with public cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and microservices is required, with a plus for storage, backup/recovery, security, or observability systems. The company also mentions accelerating AI transformation and deploying AI agents with guardrails, but this specific role is not directly building AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the design and development of cloud-native services for backup, recovery, and security of workloads.
  2. Own and drive end-to-end initiatives from architecture to production deployment and scale.
  3. Collaborate with Product Management and Architecture teams to define and evolve the technical roadmap.
  4. Guide engineers on best practices for distributed systems, scalability, and resiliency in cloud environments.
  5. Evaluate new technologies, design patterns, and frameworks to continuously improve system performance and reliability.

Skills

Required

  • Java, Go, or Python
  • Public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Microservices
  • Event-driven architectures
  • Distributed systems
  • Cloud-native design
  • Technical leadership
  • Architectural design
  • Mentoring engineers

Nice to have

  • Storage systems
  • Backup/recovery systems
  • Security systems
  • Observability systems

What the JD emphasized

  • 11+ years of experience in building large-scale, distributed enterprise or cloud-native software
  • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, and cloud-native design
  • Deep expertise in programming languages such as Java, Go, or Python
  • Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their native services
  • Solid understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, and event-driven architectures
  • Proven track record of leading technical design/architecture discussions and shipping scalable, resilient systems