Qualifications
What You’ll Do:
Your responsibilities will encompass technical leadership, strategic delivery, and fostering growth among team members, emphasizing cross-functional impact across the Developer Platform and the broader Engineering organization:
Platform Strategy and AI-Powered Productivity:
Define a long-term technical vision (3+ years) for the Developer Platform, including core infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability systems, ensuring sustainability and coherence.
Lead the integration of AI/ML not solely for engineering tasks but to enhance overall company productivity, transforming internal processes and tools.
Translate future business opportunities or gaps in engineering productivity into solvable, multi-quarter technical challenges with clear roadmaps.
Enhance engineering velocity and quality by identifying and resolving bottlenecks within the software development lifecycle while continuously introducing innovation.
Technical Leadership and Standards:
Utilize domain expertise across various system domains (e.g., CI/CD, Observability, Cloud Infrastructure, Tooling) to create high-leverage, future-proof platform solutions.
Establish standards for quality, structure, and operational excellence across all core platform systems.
Act as a consensus builder to resolve conflicting priorities and mitigate risks across dependent engineering teams.
About the job
About the Role:
The Principal Engineer position is a strategic role comparable to that of an Engineering Director. Within the Developer Platform organization, you will spearhead the technical strategy for numerous pivotal systems and technical areas that significantly enhance the company's Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), developer experience, and core engineering productivity.
Your work will encompass interactions across multiple complex systems and engineering teams, centering on the comprehensive flow of software delivery, the scalability of Developer Platforms and Infrastructure, and the innovative application of AI to enhance productivity. You will be at the forefront of these critical advancements, ensuring that our platform evolves to support the company's growth objectives.
Your primary focus will be on problem identification and resolution. This includes crafting strategies for ambiguous challenges (e.g., 'How do we scale our platform tenfold while minimizing costs?') and pinpointing key issues essential for the future of engineering productivity, proposing strategies for their resolution, such as the strategic integration of AI/ML into core developer workflows.
About Rubrik
Rubrik is a leading cloud data management company, dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that help businesses manage their data securely and efficiently. Our mission is to simplify data protection and management, providing seamless experiences for developers and organizations alike.