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Salary: USD 164,100 - 246,100 / annual
Rubrik is seeking a hands-on, technically deep Cloud Architect to serve as the critical technical bridge between Engineering, Product Management, and Field teams. You will act as the primary subject matter expert on cloud services, ensuring the product vision translates into technically sound, commercially viable solutions.
You thrive at the intersection of technical execution and product strategy. You'll guide Product Managers during development to ensure feature releases meet rigorous enterprise standards, while partnering with field teams to ensure post-sale implementations succeed in complex customer cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as technical SME to help PMs translate complex cloud requirements into actionable product requirements and PRDs
- Work closely with PM and Engineering to design and validate architectures and workflows meeting enterprise-grade performance and security standards
- Lead the "last mile" of product success by ensuring field teams have proper documentation, technical enablement, and architectural guides for post-sale implementations
- Conduct hands-on validation of new features in lab and customer environments to ensure they solve real-world challenges before full-scale rollout
- Support Sales Engineering and Professional Services by validating field-facing content including solution briefs, demos, and technical enablement materials
- Act as technical consultant to key customers and partners, helping them navigate cloud architecture and integration questions
About Rubrik: Rubrik (RBRK) is the Security and AI Operations Company, leading 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, and fine-tuning for accuracy.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture, Sales Engineering, or Technical Product roles within a cybersecurity or enterprise software company
- Strong expertise in major cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, APIs, and identity services
- Proven ability to go "hands-on"—perform deep-dive demos, validate complex integrations, and troubleshoot implementation hurdles in real-time
- Excellent skills in translating technical nuances into business value for both executive stakeholders and technical practitioners
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with engineering, product, and go-to-market teams in a fast-paced environment
Preferred:
- Prior experience in cloud security, data resilience, or hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Experience working directly with Cloud Architects or Security Engineering teams to solve architectural bottlenecks
