Rubrik: Senior Engineering Manager - Dev Platform — Bangalore

About Rubrik

Rubrik provides data-security and resilience technology for organisations facing cyberattacks, malicious activity and operational disruption. Its recruitment material discusses protecting enterprise information, including data held in business software and cloud environments. The described portfolio includes security and protection for SaaS applications, with attention to access, backup and recovery. Its business connects the technical handling of information with an organisation's ability to keep critical data protected and to recover when normal operations are disrupted.

The position and its setting

Rubrik lists Senior Engineering Manager - Dev Platform in Bangalore, under reference 8239039. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Engineering
• Employer listing date: 8 October 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• As Senior Manager of Systems Engineering, you will own how Rubrik proves its products are reliable before customers depend on them
• Own release reliability
• Be accountable for the reliability call behind every CDM release, and make ship-or-hold decisions with release managers and component leaders
• Drive the qualification roadmap
• Set one roadmap for release workflows and fast build qualification, improving both quality and speed
• Building: self-service platforms
• Leadership: the engineers building our stress, scale, chaos and longevity infrastructure, simulators and long-running environments, so component teams can validate their own work
• Leadership: and grow a high-performing team
• Building: a culture of transparency, innovation and security-first thinking in a fast-paced environment
• Hire, coach and retain engineers across geographies
• Run the team with operational rigor
• Set a clear operating rhythm (sprint planning, stand-ups, regular reviews), keep the bar high, give direct feedback and hold the team accountable for delivery
• Run on metrics
• Tracking: certification cycle time, customer-found escapes, triage time and infrastructure cost, and act on them
• Reimagine reliability in the AI era
• Use and promote AI and emerging technologies in the team, in line with the Company and Engineering vision, including AI-driven triage and automation, and measure the results

Essential requirements and candidate background

• You are a results-oriented leader who cares about enterprise software quality and about building teams
• 12+ years in the software industry, with hands-on experience building and delivering enterprise-grade products as both an individual contributor and a manager
• 3+ years leading teams of software or systems engineers, with a track record of delivering high-quality enterprise releases
• Technical depth in distributed systems, test infrastructure, or release and reliability engineering
• Experience hiring and building top-tier teams, including teams spread across geographies
• Experience building engineering practices, processes and operational rigor
• Track record of communicating clearly and influencing across engineering, product and executive leadership
• Execute in ambiguous, fast-paced environments

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Advertised location: Bangalore

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Pay and application dates

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Relevant skills

• AI/ML
• AI
• audit
• training
• stakeholder management