What's It Like to Work at Rubrik?

Rubrik uses storytelling to make complex cybersecurity and national security issues more accessible to the public. Its documentary podcast, “To Catch a Thief,” won the 2026 Tribeca X Award for Best Audio/Podcast after its first season explored the evolution of Chinese cyberespionage, reinforcing Rubrik’s broader mission to build awareness and participation around cyber resilience.

“When you make cybersecurity understandable, you empower everyone to be part of the solution.”

—Julia Lee, Chief Strategy Officer

What defines a great employee experience at Rubrik?

A shared purpose is the foundation. Our team members do the best work of their careers here because they know the problems we’re solving truly matter to the world. We’re helping secure and accelerate the world’s AI transformation, protecting the data that powers hospitals, schools, governments and the institutions people depend on every day. When your mission is that meaningful, the experience has to match it. For us, that means giving Rubrikans real room to grow and the support to reach further than they thought they could. It’s anchored in our values, which we call RIVET: “Relentlessness,” “Integrity,” “Velocity,” “Excellence” and “Transparency.” Transparency is the one I’d underline. We’re open and honest with each other, and Rubrikans have the information they need to do their best work. Everyone operates from the same context, which means everyone can contribute at full strength and in alignment. Bring the right ambition into that environment, and there’s almost no limit to what you can accomplish.

How do you measure and act on employee feedback?

Feedback is only impactful if it changes something, so that’s the bar we hold ourselves to. Ongoing surveys give us a baseline, but what makes feedback powerful at Rubrik is that it actually shapes things. We’ve also stayed intentionally flat as we’ve grown. A great idea or a critical piece of feedback reaches the people who can act on it, which is how leaders stay close to what’s really happening across the company. When people know their voice carries real weight, they use it, and we listen. The point isn’t only to measure how people feel. It’s to act on it and to keep building an extraordinary culture.

What cultural values or rituals make your workplace unique?

One thing that truly sets Rubrik apart is what we call maximal thinking. Maximal thinking is a philosophy our CEO and co-founder, Bipul Sinha, champions and encourages all Rubrikans to embrace. Bipul challenges us to take bold swings and stretch beyond expectations, and we’ve built a place where that’s genuinely safe to do. At Rubrik, you’re far more likely to be challenged for not taking the shot than for a mistake made in pursuit of something ambitious. That’s how we’ve kept the energy and conviction of a startup, even as we’ve gone public and grown to more than 3,000 employees. The culture today feels near-identical to what it was when I first joined Rubrik’s team of around 800, because we’ve scaled the company without diluting how we operate or who we are. People here are driven by what’s right for Rubrik and our customers. We won’t always agree, but we never question each other’s motives. That kind of trust is rare, and it’s the thing I’m most proud of.