Senior AI API Platform Engineer
RUBRIK INDIA
Work from Office
Full Time
Min. 8 yearsJob Description
Senior AI API Platform Engineer
About the Role
The AI API Platform Engineer is a hands-on technical lead who designs and builds the APIs and platform capabilities powering Rubrik's AI-driven products and automation, owning the full API lifecycle across any stack, cloud, or iPaaS. This role delivers secure, scalable, high-performance APIs and full-stack services while enabling AI-native consumption patterns across the enterprise.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and own APIs in any tech stack - REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and webhooks - choosing the right language, cloud service, or iPaaS for each use case.
- Build for AI use cases, exposing data/services as tools for LLMs and AI agents, and enabling RAG and agentic workflows.
- Own core backend engineering in Node.js / Java / Python / Go, with strong data modeling and performance tuning.
- Define API governance - versioning, documentation standards, and reusable auth/error-handling/observability frameworks.
- Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring of engineers.
- Define NFRs and SLAs for availability, latency, throughput, and reliability, and ensure designs meet them.
- Partner with security and compliance to meet regulatory and audit requirements across APIs and integrations.
- Lead technical discovery for new API, integration, and AI-enablement initiatives with product and business stakeholders.
- Drive reuse and standardization through shared APIs, connectors, SDKs, and an integration catalog.
- Evaluate emerging patterns (event-driven integration, AI agent frameworks, low-code automation) to shape the platform roadmap.
Required Qualifications
Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in API/full-stack/backend development across multiple languages and clouds.
- 2+ years in a senior/lead/architect capacity owning API and platform designs for complex, enterprise-scale systems.
- 1+ years in an FDE role, working directly with internal customers.
Technical Skills - API, Fullstack & Backend
- Deep API expertise across REST, including contract-first design (OpenAPI/Swagger) and robust error handling.
- Strong backend and full-stack skills in Node.js / Java / Python / Go, plus platform-agnostic experience across cloud and iPaaS (MuleSoft, Workato, Boomi).
- Cloud-native development on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including serverless, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
- Strong data skills - SQL and NoSQL database design, plus integration data formats (JSON, XML, CSV).
- Secure API design using OAuth 2.0/OIDC, mTLS, and secrets management, with solid CI/CD and Git-based workflows.
- SaaS integration experience with platforms such as NetSuite, Workday, Salesforce, or Snowflake.
- API Gateway expertise with platforms such as Kong / Apigee / AWS API Gateway / Azure APIM / MuleSoft API Gateway for routing, rate limiting, and policy enforcement.
- API testing proficiency using tools such as Postman for functional, and regression testing
- Networking fundamentals, including VPN/VPC concepts.
- Working knowledge of DevOps practices and toolchains.
Technical Skills - AI & Intelligent Platform Enablement
- Hands-on experience with the AI-assisted SDLC - using AI tools to design, build, test, and manage APIs.
- Experience building APIs for AI consumption, including function/tool-calling interfaces for LLMs and agents.
- Working knowledge of AI/LLM frameworks (OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain) and vector databases, and how they integrate with enterprise APIs.
- Understanding of AI-specific NFRs - latency, cost, rate limiting, and safety/guardrails.
- Practical experience with AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) for AI assisted platform and infrastructure development.
Soft Skills
- Proven ability to lead without authority, driving technical decisions through clarity and data.
- Excellent communication skills, presenting solutions and trade-offs to technical and business stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Cloud or iPaaS certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP, MuleSoft, Workato, or Boomi).
- Experience in regulated environments (SOX, FedRAMP) with strong auditability and change control.
- Familiarity with event-driven/streaming platforms (Kafka, EventBridge, Event Hubs).
- Hands-on exposure to AI agents, copilots, or LLM-powered features in production.
Join Us in Securing and Accelerating the World's AI Transformation
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:
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.
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.
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, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. Rubrik provides equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants in all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, promotion, compensation, training, leave, and termination.
Rubrik provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process or to perform your job, please contact hr@rubrik.com. Accommodations may include changes to the application process, documents in an alternate format, a sign language interpreter, or specialized equipment.
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