Rubrik: Senior Software Engineer - CPD (IAM) — Bengaluru

About Rubrik

Rubrik provides data-security and resilience technology for organisations facing cyberattacks, malicious activity and operational disruption. Its recruitment material discusses protecting enterprise information, including data held in business software and cloud environments. The described portfolio includes security and protection for SaaS applications, with attention to access, backup and recovery. Its business connects the technical handling of information with an organisation's ability to keep critical data protected and to recover when normal operations are disrupted.

The position and its setting

Rubrik lists Senior Software Engineer - CPD (IAM) in Bengaluru, under reference 7956920. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Engineering
• Employer listing date: 1 September 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Design, build, and harden identity and access flows — OIDC/OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, Active Directory integrations — that sit in front of mission-critical systems
• Own token and assertion lifecycle correctness: issuance, validation, expiry, rotation, and failure-mode handling for JWT/JWKS and SAML assertions
• Apply applied-cryptography and PKI practices (X.509 certs, key rotation, TLS) to keep the auth path secure by default, not as an afterthought
• Building: and maintain reverse-proxy/HTTP-layer components (TLS termination, header handling) that front customer authentication traffic
• Debug and resolve customer-facing identity/access issues, working with support to triage escalations quickly
• Contribution: to build/release and cross-platform packaging (Linux deb/rpm, Windows MSI) as needed
• Maintenance: a small Windows companion application written in C#/.NET
• Write and enhance end-to-end tests covering auth flows, failure modes, and edge cases (clock skew, revoked tokens, malformed assertions, etc.)
• Document known issues, workarounds, and design decisions in the team knowledge base as the team and product mature
• Communicate clearly with product and engineering stakeholders on design tradeoffs, security posture, and escalation status

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Must-have
• Minimum experience of at least 8 Years
• Hands-on programming skills in Golang
• Deep, practical knowledge of identity protocols: OIDC/OAuth 2.0 and SAML 2.0 — including token/assertion internals, standard flows, and failure modes
• Knowledge: Active Directory
• Applied cryptography/PKI
• X.509, JWT/JWKS, key rotation, TLS
• Security engineering discipline — comfortable reasoning about threat models and building software to protect mission-critical systems, not just make features work
• Understanding: OS fundamentals, networking, and concurrency
• Knowledge: Linux; comfortable writing shell/bash scripts
• Simple, effective written and verbal communication

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Directory internals (schema, bind operations)
• HTTP internals and reverse proxying (TLS, header injection)
• Build/release and cross-platform packaging (Linux deb/rpm, Windows MSI)
• Secret-manager internals, Redis, Win32, policy engines
• Basic C#/.NET (to maintain the companion app)

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• About Team & About Role:
• As a Senior Software Engineer (SSE) in the Continuous Product Delivery (CPD) team, you will play a key role in providing long term stability and last mile delight to our customers
• Work closely with the core engineering team, product, and support org
• Be working across Rubrik releases on our on-premise data backup & management offering, with a focus on the identity and access layer that secures it
• You are expected to develop a understanding of our product and engineering architecture — particularly how authentication and authorization flow through the system, including our integrations with enterprise identity providers, directory services, and certificate-based trust chains
• We are seeking a highly skilled Golang developer with deep, practical experience in identity protocols (OIDC/OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0) and applied cryptography/PKI
• You should have programming and troubleshooting skills, design skills, and a understanding of distributed systems, OS fundamentals, and networking
• Preferably have working knowledge of Active Directory and be able to work independently and as part of a team
• Advertised location: Bengaluru

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Rubrik

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Relevant skills

• C#
• Linux
• AI
• audit
• training
• stakeholder management
• communication
• problem resolution