Senior Talent Partner

Rubrik Job Board; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Rubrik in Bengaluru, India, is seeking a Senior Talent Partner, Engineering, to lead full life-cycle recruitment for its most complex engineering searches across distributed systems, cloud, security, data, and AI teams. This senior IC role partners with engineering VPs to shape teams, levels, and location strategy with market evidence.

You’ll design multi-channel sourcing, run rigorous technical conversations, and build diverse pipelines across India, influencing hiring decisions and TA

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full life-cycle recruiting experience, especially for software engineers.
• Proven ability to close senior and hard-to-fill roles independently across multiple engineering domains.
• Technical fluency to discuss system/ML work without a cheat sheet.
• Credibility with engineering VPs demonstrated by past talent moves.
• Strong competitive intelligence on the Indian engineering market and hiring trends.
• Advanced command of ATS and sourcing stacks; sought-after by peers for guidance.
• Persuasive communication that closes candidates and aligns hiring teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead full life-cycle recruitment for Rubrik’s complex engineering searches in India—from distributed systems to AI/ML—through to offer acceptance.
• Advise engineering Directors, VPs, and above on hiring strategy, leveling calls, team composition, and local market decisions.
• Design and run multi-channel sourcing strategies to reach engineers not actively looking for roles.
• Hold credible technical conversations to screen for real signal and earn engineers’ respect early.
• Build diverse pipelines by integrating sourcing into intake and interview panels.
• Lead TA initiatives beyond own searches—interviewer calibration, screen design, candidate experience, reporting.
• Set standards on tools and processes for technical hiring and share best practices.

Skills

Full lifecycle recruiting

Engineering recruitment

Technical fluency

Executive stakeholder management

Competitive intelligence

ATS & sourcing tools

Persuasive communication

Tools

ATS

Sourcing tools

Job description

Senior Talent Partner, Engineering

Location: Bengaluru, India — Hybrid Department: People — Talent Acquisition

About the Role

You’ll lead engineering hiring for Rubrik’s India site — the distributed systems, cloud, security, data, and AI teams building Rubrik Security Cloud and Rubrik Agent Cloud. This is a senior individual-contributor seat: you’ll own the hardest technical searches yourself and advise engineering VPs on leveling, team shape, and where in India to build. Every strong backend or AI engineer you approach already has three other conversations open, so the quality of your pitch and your judgment decides the outcome.

About the Team

Rubrik’s Bengaluru engineering organization is among the company’s largest and fastest-growing, shipping core platform and AI work rather than support functions. You’ll partner with engineering leaders here and their counterparts in the US, and be looked to by the India Talent Acquisition team as the standard for technical recruiting.

What You’ll Do

• Lead full life-cycle recruitment for Rubrik’s most complex engineering searches in India — distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, security, data, and AI/ML — through to offer acceptance.
• Advise engineering Directors,VPs and above on hiring strategy, driving leveling calls, team composition, and location decisions with market evidence behind them.
• Design and run multi-channel sourcing strategies without direction, using competitive intelligence to reach engineers who aren’t looking and aren’t on a job board.
• Hold a credible technical conversation — enough depth to screen for real signal, calibrate a panel, and earn an engineer’s respect in the first ten minutes.
• Make diverse pipelines structural: build them into intake, involve interview panels in sourcing, and evidence the outcome search by search.
• Lead a Talent Acquisition initiative beyond your own reqs — interviewer calibration, technical screen design, candidate experience, or reporting.
• Set the standard on tools and process for technical hiring, teach peers, and challenge what isn’t working.

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years of full life-cycle recruiting, with substantial time hiring software engineers at product companies.
• Proven ability to close senior and hard-to-fill technical roles independently, across more than one engineering domain.
• Technical fluency — you can read a systems or ML profile accurately and discuss the work without a cheat sheet.
• Credibility with engineering VPs, evidenced by talent recommendations that changed a level, a profile, or an org decision.
• Command of competitive intelligence in the Indian engineering market: who’s hiring, who’s losing people, and what it takes to move them.
• Advanced command of an ATS and sourcing stack, at the level where peers come to you for guidance.
• Persuasive communication that closes candidates and reframes a hiring team’s view of a profile.

Bonus Points

• Hiring for infrastructure, cybersecurity, or AI/ML platform teams.
• Scaling an engineering site or standing up a new team in India from a small base.
• Leading a cross-functional TA initiative with measurable results.

You’ll embody Rubrik’s RIVET values — Relentlessness, Integrity, Velocity, Excellence, and Transparency — in how you collaborate, make decisions, and show up for Stakeholders and teammates.

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.

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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.

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