Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes businesses should control all their data whenever and wherever they need it. Veeam provides data resilience through data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence. Based in Seattle, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we move forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands. The future of data resilience is here - go fearlessly forward with us.
Veeam is launching a global Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) function to support the rollout and operation of our new SaaS offering: the Veeam Data Cloud. As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will serve as a hands-on technical leader within the SRE team, guiding senior engineers, influencing product development teams, and ensuring the systems we operate are built to be reliable, scalable, and observable from the ground up.
You will drive strategic initiatives, mentor others in the practice of SRE, and help define architectural best practices across our platform. This role is pivotal in aligning teams, enforcing high standards, and scaling SRE principles globally within Veeam.
What You’ll Do- Act as a technical authority in your area, mentoring senior engineers and guiding design choices that improve service reliability and resilience
- Lead the definition and enforcement of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; drive adherence across engineering teams
- Ensure metrics, logs, and traces provide deep, actionable insights across systems
- Lead complex incident responses, postmortems, and systemic reliability improvements
- Promote and enforce a blameless culture of learning and continuous improvement
- Lead initiatives in infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and resilience testing
- Influence the development and adoption of chaos engineering practices and release validation frameworks
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams - including engineering, product, platform, and security - to align strategies, establish reliability standards, and ensure resilient, production-ready architecture from the outset
- Provide architectural guidance and advocate for engineering rigor and consistency
- Represent the SRE team in technical leadership forums and product planning discussions
- 8+ years of experience in a Software Engineering or SRE role, including technical leadership
- Demonstrated experience mentoring and guiding senior engineers
- Deep expertise in building distributed systems on public cloud (Azure preferred)
- Strong skills in programming (e.g., JS, Go, Typescript, Java, or C#)
- Hands-on experience with observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Mastery of infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Pulumi) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Ability to communicate clearly across geographies and disciplines
- Familiarity with global compliance standards (ISO, SOC 2, GDPR, FedRAMP, CMMC)
- Unlimited paid time off, plus 3 global VeeaMe Days for self-care
- Paid parental leave: 8 weeks for all parents, 16 weeks for birthing parents
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage from day one
- Mental health support, therapy sessions, and digital wellness tools via SupportLinc EAP
- 401(k) retirement plan with matching contributions up to annual limits
- Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support through Maven, plus paid volunteer time
- AirVet: 24/7 virtual veterinary care at no cost
- Legal services, identity protection, and supplemental health insurance options
- Tax-advantaged spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuting
- Professional training and education, including courses and workshops, internal meetups, and unlimited access to our online learning platforms (LinkedIn Learning, Athena, O’Reilly) and mentoring through our MentorLab program
Please note: If the applicant is permanently present outside of the United States, Veeam reserves the right to refuse to consider the application for a job. Remote work is only possible in case the employee is located in the United States.
Compensation Transparency
Veeam is committed to pay transparency and equitable compensation. For this role, the compensation range below reflects the expected total target compensation (TTC), inclusive of base pay and a competitive performance-based bonus. For roles with a commission plan, the compensation range represents On Target Earnings (OTE), which includes base salary plus variable commission. When determining compensation, Veeam takes into consideration factors such as experience, education, skills, and geographic zone. Offers are typically made below the midpoint of the range.
In addition to compensation, Veeam provides a comprehensive benefits package, including health coverage, retirement plans, and unlimited time off.
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