Senior Engineering Manager - Dev Platform

Overview

As Senior Manager of Systems Engineering, you will own how Rubrik proves its products are reliable before customers depend on them. You will lead the systems engineering organization responsible for release reliability, validation platforms, long-running environments and AI-driven reliability workflows.

What you'll do

• Be accountable for the reliability decision behind every CDM release and make ship-or-hold decisions with release managers and component leaders.
• Set one roadmap for release workflows and fast build qualification, improving both quality and speed.
• Lead engineers building stress, scale, chaos and longevity infrastructure, simulators and long-running environments.
• Build self-service tools so component teams can validate their own work.
• Build a culture of transparency, innovation and security-first thinking in a fast-paced environment.
• Hire, coach and retain engineers across geographies.
• Set a clear operating rhythm including sprint planning, stand-ups and regular reviews.
• Keep the bar high, give direct feedback and hold the team accountable for delivery.
• Track certification cycle time, customer-found escapes, triage time and infrastructure cost, and act on them.
• Use and promote AI and emerging technologies, including AI-driven triage and automation, and measure the results.
• Align priorities with component leaders, product managers and program managers.
• Communicate with stakeholders at every level.

What you'll need

• 12+ years in the software industry.
• 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.
• 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.
• A track record of communicating clearly and influencing across engineering, product and executive leadership.
• Ability to execute in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
• Proven use of AI to improve your own work and your team's, for example by building or adopting AI agents and tooling that measurably cut triage time, speed up infrastructure and pipeline delivery, or automate release workflows.

Details

• Location: Bangalore.