At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Location
- Bangalore
About the role
- The Systems Engineering team in Rubrik's Developer Platform organization owns the reliability of Rubrik Cloud Data Management (CDM) and RSC-P products.
- As Senior Manager of Systems Engineering, you will own how Rubrik proves its products are reliable before customers depend on them.
Responsibilities
- Own release reliability and be accountable for the reliability call behind every CDM release, making ship-or-hold decisions with release managers and component leaders.
- Drive the qualification roadmap by setting one roadmap for release workflows and fast build qualification, improving both quality and speed.
- Build self-service platforms by leading engineers building stress, scale, chaos, and longevity infrastructure, simulators, and long-running environments.
- Lead and grow a high-performing team while building a culture of transparency, innovation, and security-first thinking.
- Run the team with operational rigor by setting a clear operating rhythm, keeping the bar high, and giving direct feedback.
- Run on metrics by tracking certification cycle time, customer-found escapes, triage time, and infrastructure cost.
- Reimagine reliability in the AI era by using and promoting AI and emerging technologies, including AI-driven triage and automation.
- Partner broadly by aligning priorities with component leaders, product managers, and program managers.
Requirements
- 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.
- Ability to execute in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
- AI-forward leadership with proven use of AI to improve work and team output.
Skills
- Distributed Systems
- Test Infrastructure
- Reliability Engineering
- AI
- Automation
