Senior Engineering Manager - SRE (EST Time Zone)
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Production Engineering team at Rubrik is responsible for ensuring the availability and reliability of mission-critical platforms operating across large-scale, multi-cloud environments. We act as the backbone of operational excellence—owning incident response, outage, observability, and continuous improvement.
The team works in close collaboration with SRE and Engineering teams to proactively identify risks, reduce operational toil, drive outages and build resilient systems. We operate in complex, high-pressure scenarios, applying sound technical judgment while continuously improving through learning, ownership, and accountability.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Senior Engineering Manager for Production Engineering, you will lead and grow a high-impact team responsible for maintaining highly available, business-critical services. You will spearhead the technical roadmap, strategy and execution, while serving as a senior escalation point during major incidents.
You will set the vision for the team, while coaching engineers to operate with confidence in high-pressure environments. This role requires strong technical depth, strong decision-making skills, and the ability to collaborate across teams to continuously improve system reliability and operational maturity.
What you’ll do
- Lead Production Engineering team supporting critical infrastructure and services across multi-cloud environments. This role requires you to work in EST timezone (4:00 PM – 1:00 AM IST).
- Own operational excellence for production environments by establishing strong processes, standards, and accountability for availability and reliability.
- Champion a metrics-driven culture of continuous improvement, driving initiatives to improve operational KPIs such as MTTA/MTTR.
- Foster a strong collaborative mindset working closely with leadership to align operational priorities with business goals and reliability targets.
- Develop team members through coaching, mentoring, and career development, while enabling senior contributors to operate at maximum impact.
- Plan and manage on-call rotations, escalation models, and resource availability to ensure sustainable support for mission-critical systems.
- Establish strong execution rigor through sprint planning, prioritization, and accountability, holding teams to high standards of delivery and performance.
Experience you’ll need
- A passionate leader who is obsessed with building technically strong teams and has 12+ years of Software Development experience and 3+ years in Engineering Management roles.
- Experience hiring, building top talent teams.
- Experience in delivering enterprise-quality scalable Distributed Systems with high quality standards.
- Preferred: Experience leading SRE teams to drive operational excellence across large-scale, multi-cloud production environments through strong processes, metrics, and reliability-focused practices.
- Experience building and cultivating strong engineering practices and processes.
- Experience working with cross-geo global engineering teams.
- Have a track record of effectively communicating with stakeholders at all levels.
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent field.
Join Us in Securing the World's Data
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 @ Rubrik
At 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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
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.
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