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.

What you'll do

• 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

What you need

• AWS
• CI/CD
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Azure
• GCP

Good to have

• SOX
• Kafka
• Python
• LLMs
• Node.js
• Java