Senior Backend Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Significant prospects due to the rapid growth of the cybersecurity sector and strong demand for cloud-native applications.
- High demand role in cybersecurity and cloud services
- Possibility for growth in a fast-paced environment
- Hybrid work offering flexibility and balance
Pros
- High demand for skills in cloud-native backend development and cybersecurity
- Opportunity to work in a rapidly evolving team and innovate
- Hybrid work model offering flexibility
Cons
- Requires a strong technical background and specific tool knowledge
- Fast-paced work environment may not suit everyone
- Potential stress from high expectations and complex problem-solving
Who it's for
Senior • Hybrid
Good fit
- Senior backend developers with cloud experience
- Innovative thinkers in cybersecurity
- Tech professionals thriving in dynamic workplaces
Not recommended for
- Beginners without backend development experience
- Those preferring a strictly structured work environment
- Candidates who lack interest in cybersecurity
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
About Us
The Rubrik Security Apps team helps customers secure their data on the cloud. Cloud data is growing at an ever growing pace and so are the risks with cyber attacks targeted towards cloud data. We make it easy for businesses to protect, search, analyze all of their cloud data simply and scalably.
Security Apps is one of the fastest growing businesses and teams within Rubrik. We consider ourselves a startup inside a startup! Join us in this journey where there are ever widening avenues to explore, opportunities to innovate, deep engineering problems to tackle. We believe in fostering a culture with strong engineering values and teamwork as the key to building a great company and product. When you become part of our dynamic and innovative team, you'll contribute to the development of cutting-edge products within a fast-growing company that prides itself on an exceptional culture and a dynamic work environment.
About the Role
We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our R&D team. You will work closely with our product team to build our unique product offering. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for building complex backend designs that are both scalable and fault-tolerant, developing our data ingestion pipeline and introducing new analysis engines.
What You'll Be Doing
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve the software.
- You’ll have your domain of expertise in which you'll assist the product team with future directions, lead the technology and cooperate with other engineers.
- You’ll develop backend services that integrate with and ingest data from various cloud providers that store sensitive data.
- You’ll build pipelines that analyze, classify, correlate and process this data.
- You’ll build systems that detect anomalies in the ingested data for alerting the customer, that automatically resolve issues and that generate sophisticated yet easily consumable insights arising from the processed data.
- You’ll have end-to-end responsibility from the technical design phase up to making sure the system is scalable and can meet high customer demands in production.
- You’ll identify and solve for bottlenecks within our software stack.
- You’ll bring innovation to the product
- You’ll work in an agile environment that focuses on high velocity and responds quickly to new insights.
- As an all-around player, you'll work closely and at a high pace with other engineers, product, design, and other internal key stakeholders, as well as have a direct line of sight into how your work solves real-world problems for our clients and accelerates our business.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in building backend software.
- Experience in building cloud-native products
- Experience in SQL
- Experience building distributed systems using modern frameworks, such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, Amazon SQS, and Celery
- Experience in writing RESTful APIs
- Experience with gRPC
- Experience in async programming (e.g. asyncio, goroutines)
- Knowledge of cloud internals (AWS, Azure, GCP) - advantage
- Knowledge in the cybersecurity domain - advantage
- B.Sc. in Computer Science or related field, or relevant military experience - advantage
- Please add a link to your GitHub profile (optional)
All Tel Aviv team members, work with a hybrid work model that gives them the option to work both at home and in the office
Join Us in Securing the World's Data
Rubrik (RBRK), the Security and AI company, operates at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience and enterprise AI acceleration. The Rubrik Security Cloud platform is designed to deliver robust cyber resilience and recovery including identity resilience to ensure continuous business operations, all on top of secure metadata and data lake. Rubrik’s offerings also include Predibase to help further secure and deploy GenAI while delivering exceptional accuracy and efficiency for agentic applications.
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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.
Rubrik provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Rubrik complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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