Job brief: Staff Software Engineer - Reliability (US Citizen OR Green Card Only)

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Rubrik's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (4 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-08.
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• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $218,300 to $327,500 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Palo Alto, CA · Palo Alto, CA HQ Office
• Posted: 2026-05-29 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• AI Infrastructure for SaaS: Deploy, scale, and operate the AI infrastructure that powers Rubrik's SaaS offerings, owning the reliability, performance, cost, and security controls …
• Citizenship & Residency: Must be a US Citizen currently residing on CONUS soil (strict regulatory requirement to enable support for federal and FedRAMP environments when required).
• Industry Experience: A minimum of 8–12+ years of software engineering and production cloud infrastructure experience, with at least 5+ years dedicated to a formal SRE, DevOps, or …
• Prior experience building, certifying, or auditing infrastructure environments under compliance structures such as FedRAMP (High/Moderate), SOC 2, ISO 27001, or CJIS.
• The minimum and maximum base salaries for this role are posted below;
• The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the role based on U.S.

Conditions

• On-Call Rotations: Participate in on-call rotations
• Leadership Capability: Demonstrated history of technical leadership, mapping architectural dependencies, managing multi-team technical projects, and guiding organizations through …

Main duties

• As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will possess engineering-wide influence and take ownership of the following critical areas:
• Infrastructure Strategy & Architecture: Formulate and execute the architectural vision for Rubrik's Cloud Platform, optimizing backend infrastructure systems…
• Hyperscale Automation & Platform Tooling: Build, scale, and maintain sophisticated custom internal tools, platform controllers, and automation frameworks in …
• AI Infrastructure for SaaS: Deploy, scale, and operate the AI infrastructure that powers Rubrik's SaaS offerings, owning the reliability, performance, cost, …
• AI for SRE & Engineering Productivity : Drive the adoption of AI-driven solutions across the SRE charter to compress toil and multiply the org - applying age…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in Palo Alto, CA: $192k a year (101 listings, 4 employers). This listing is 42% higher.
• Across Rubrik's 84 open listings, 39% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Rubrik hires

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