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Legal Intern, Summer 2026

Rubrik
Palo Alto, CA Intern
POSTED ON 4/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/5/2026
About Rubrik

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. For more information, please visit www.rubrik.com and follow @rubrikInc on X (formerly Twitter) and Rubrik on LinkedIn.

About Team & About Role

Rubrik is on a mission to secure the world’s data and our Legal Team is committed to supporting this mission, offering critical guidance across many areas of the business. Rubrik’s Legal Team offers tremendous opportunities for team members, handling everything from commercial law and SaaS agreements to intellectual property, employment law, privacy, trade compliance, and litigation. Our Legal Team has a culture that encourages great ideas and debate as we build an iconic company together with a sense of ownership and autonomy. Rubrik is at a pivotal moment in its story. Join us and let’s be unstoppable, together.

The Rubrik legal team is looking for a high-performing legal intern to work on a variety of corporate, commercial, and intellectual property-related matters. You will gain experience working with a dynamic in-house legal team at a high-growth, public technology company. This is a rotational internship, where the intern will spend a third of their time working with the corporate legal team, a third of their time working with the commercial legal team, and a third of their time working with the intellectual property legal team.

About Rubrik’s Internship Program

Rubrik offers an opportunity to make an impact from day one. Our interns work on challenging, real-world projects that not only contribute to our success but provide high visibility into our company and products. Interns learn from the best in the industry, building connections with senior team members who support their development through 1:1 mentorship. Alongside the meaningful work, interns are fully immersed in Rubrik's inclusive community through social events, networking opportunities, professional development workshops, and volunteering events.

During The Internship, You’ll Have Access To

  • Meaningful projects: the opportunity to translate your education into hands-on professional experience through rigorous, yet rewarding work
  • Growth and development: take advantage of extensive growth opportunities through mentoring, job shadowing, workshops, lunch n’ learns, and hands-on project work that supports both your personal and professional development.
  • A dedicated manager & mentor: a team that will provide you with guidance and support regularly
  • Intern events: the opportunity to participate in networking events, volunteering opportunities, and social events
  • Other perks: Access to free mental health services, lunch stipend, optional 401K benefits, company-wide intern presentations, intern swag, and more!

In the past year, Rubrik’s internship program has been recognized as a Top 100 Internship Program and a Campus Forward Award Winner. What we do matters. Join us and unleash your potential!

What we do matters. Join us and unleash your potential!

What You’ll Do

We're looking for curious interns who want to be entrusted with real responsibility and who embrace the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

  • Assist the corporate legal team with corporate governance matters, international subsidiary management, anti-corruption, and corporate transactions.
  • Support Rubrik’s commercial legal team in reviewing and negotiating contracts with Rubrik’s customers and partners, implementing processes and AI tools, and data privacy compliance.
  • Work with the intellectual property legal team in helping to review product claims, licensing provisions, and patent and trademark applications.

Preferred Qualifications & Experience You’ll Need

  • Currently pursuing a J.D. or L.L.M. (or equivalent) at an ABA-accredited law school
  • Attention to detail is critical
  • Eager to learn in a fast-paced environment and passionate about technology
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with a great sense of humor
  • Exceptional writing, communication, and presentation skills
  • Experience with corporate and commercial transactions for technology companies, whether in-house or at a law firm, is preferred but not required

The minimum and maximum hourly rate for this role are posted below; additionally, the role is eligible for bonus potential, equity and benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire hourly rates for the role based on U.S. location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US Pay Range

$45—$50 USD

Join Us in Securing the World's Data

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.

Linkedin | X (formerly Twitter) | Instagram | Rubrik.com

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, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Rubrik provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Rubrik complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please contact us at hr@rubrik.com if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

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