Principal Engineer
Rubrik · Posted Oct 30
Cloud data security, zero-trust backup, threat analytics, and cyber resilience services
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About the role
Rubrik is the Security and AI Operations Company, delivering one platform built at the intersection of data, identity, and AI. The Principal Engineer role defines and executes the technical strategy for Rubrik's AI software factory, the platform on which agents and people take an idea to customer value, as the company moves to an AI Product Development Lifecycle (AI-PDLC). The role leads the build of a shared foundation used by every function at Rubrik, from Product, Design and Engineering to Sales and Marketing, for their AI workflows.
What you will do
- Define the technical vision for the AI-PDLC platform: orchestration, approval gates, model and tool gateways, agent runtimes, context, evals and cost visibility.
- Make the platform usable by every function through clear contracts, paved paths and self-serve tooling.
- Decide what Rubrik should own, build on and borrow.
- Turn business opportunities and productivity gaps across Product, Design, Engineering, Support and go-to-market teams into multi-quarter roadmaps.
- Set the standards for trustworthy agentic workflows: a person approves every agent output, and no workflow skips its quality or security checkpoints.
- Champion eval-driven development, managed agent identities with native access control, and outcome metrics such as landed rate, revert rate and cost per landed change.
- Own cross-cutting initiatives (up to about 18 engineers' effort) end to end. Stay hands-on: prototype, write code and review critical changes.
- Build consensus across Engineering, Product, Design, Support, Security and business functions.
- Lead the organizational change that AI-native work requires, where ownership means accountability rather than gatekeeping.
- Coach Engineers toward Principal-level impact, raise the hiring bar, and represent Rubrik externally.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Typically 15+ years in software engineering, with a significant focus on developer or internal platforms.
- Proven at Director-level scope, driving technical strategy across multiple complex systems and organizations.
- Hands-on experience running LLMs and agents in production, including orchestration, tool integration (for example, MCP), context engineering, evals and guardrails.
- Deep expertise in a general-purpose language (for example, Go, Java, C/C++, Scala or Python) and strong first-principles thinking.
- Experience scaling secure, highly available platforms, including identity, access control and cost governance.
- Data-driven: defines outcome metrics and uses them to steer investment and prove impact.
- A consensus builder and coach who communicates clearly with executives, non-technical stakeholders and global teams.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Rubrik
Rubrik is a cloud-native cybersecurity and data resilience company that provides zero-trust data protection, threat monitoring, and automated enterprise recovery solutions. The company delivers a unified platform designed to safeguard hybrid and multi-cloud environments against ransomware and malicious cyber threats. By integrating AI-driven operations and risk analytics, Rubrik helps enterprises ensure business continuity and digital trust.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 3000-5000 employees
- Founded
- 2014
- Location
- Palo Alto, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $553M raised
- 2021-08-17Series FUndisclosed
- 2021-11-01Secondary Market$1.3M
Leadership
Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman
Co-Founder and CTO
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Product Officer
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