About Team:
The Rubrik Cloud Direct team helps customers manage and analyze petabytes of data and billions of files and objects. We make it easy for businesses to protect, search, secure, and analyze all of their data simply and scalably. This is a massive challenge and we’re just getting started so there is a lot of opportunity for personal growth and contribution. We believe in fostering a culture with strong engineering values and goals as the key to building a great company and product.
About the Role:
We are seeking a seasoned technical leader who thrives in a dynamic environment and brings deep technical expertise to management. Based out of our Palo Alto office, you will drive your team while collaborating closely with key partners and stakeholders across our teams in Bangalore and Seattle to foster a cohesive and inclusive team culture. You will be responsible for setting clear goals, driving product value, and holding the team accountable to achieving engineering excellence.
To achieve this, we look for leaders who balance empathy with high standards thereby creating strong engagement while delivering frequent, high-quality product releases. You will provide the structure needed to prioritize high-impact work while empowering your team with the flexibility to deliver beyond expectations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive the roadmap and vision with key stakeholders
- Diagnose and resolve obstacles that block the team from delivering quality software
- Champion continuous improvement, a customer-first mindset, and engineering excellence
- Apply first-principles thinking to help the team work through complex technical problems
- Distill complex, ambiguous situations into actionable plans for your team
- Represent the customer's perspective, anticipate how they're impacted by what you build, and work to enable their success
- Enable the team to self-organize and sustain high velocity and predictability
- Grow employees through career development, coaching, and mentoring
- Provide a clear path for progression through personal development plans, goal-setting, evaluations, and collaboration with employees on their objectives
Preferred Qualifications:
- BS CS/EE or equivalent with 10+ years of industry experience, of which 3+ years is in Engineering Management.
- Experience with SaaS enterprise software development built and delivered on any of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience running engineering storage, compute, and infrastructure teams that work on SaaS and On-prem enterprise platforms.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and file system architectures.
- Experience hiring and developing teams within an existing organization to work side-by-side with other teams.
- Experience developing team identity, empowering direct reports, and building career growth options for your team.
- Experience working directly with customers and vendors.
- Experience building and cultivating strong engineering practices and processes.
- Proven experience leading and mentoring distributed, cross-functional teams across multiple time zones.
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Rubrik (RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes.
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Inclusion @ RubrikAt Rubrik, we are dedicated to fostering a culture where people from all backgrounds are valued, feel they belong, and believe they can succeed. Our commitment to inclusion is at the heart of our mission to secure the world’s data.
Our goal is to hire and promote the best talent, regardless of background. We continually review our hiring practices to ensure fairness and strive to create an environment where every employee has equal access to opportunities for growth and excellence. We believe in empowering everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and achieve their fullest potential.
Our inclusion strategy focuses on three core areas of our business and culture:Our Company: We are committed to building a merit-based organization that offers equal access to growth and success for all employees globally. Your potential is limitless here.
Our Culture: We strive to create an inclusive atmosphere where individuals from all backgrounds feel a strong sense of belonging, can thrive, and do their best work. Your contributions help us innovate and break boundaries.
Our Communities: We are dedicated to expanding our engagement with the communities we operate in, creating opportunities for underrepresented talent and driving greater innovation for our clients. Your impact extends beyond Rubrik, contributing to safer and stronger communities.
Rubrik is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Rubrik provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Rubrik complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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