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.
As a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will set the direction for Veeam’s global SRE function, aligning our Staff Engineers and collaborating with senior product and platform engineering leads to shape the architecture and long-term reliability of the Veeam Data Cloud.
You will architect for scale, codify best practices, and establish the strategic reliability roadmap across systems. Your influence will extend across teams and disciplines, helping build a reliability-first culture that emphasizes automation, observability, and continuous learning. This is a rare opportunity to define how reliability is engineered into the core of a major global SaaS initiative.
What You Will Do- Guide the strategic reliability roadmap across services, collaborating with Staff SREs and product engineering leadership
- Lead deep dives into service architecture and operational behaviors to identify opportunities for system-wide improvements
- Set architectural guardrails and partner with engineering leadership to design for resilience and scalability at global scale
- Mentor Staff SREs and serve as the connective tissue between their areas of expertise
- Drive alignment across teams and functions through leadership, coaching, and technical authority
- Advocate for a blameless, data-informed culture of continuous improvement
- Lead and evolve chaos engineering, resilience testing, and system validation programs
- Establish visibility mechanisms (dashboards, SLO reporting, scorecards) that track our reliability posture
- Represent the SRE discipline in executive and cross-functional settings, influencing org-level decisions
- Collaborate with platform, security, and infrastructure teams to build shared tooling and processes
- Contribute thought leadership internally and externally through presentations, white papers, and conference talks.
- 12+ years in engineering roles, including 3+ years in a staff+ or principal-level position
- Expertise in large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and resilience strategies
- Proven ability to set technical direction and align diverse teams around architectural goals
- Experience mentoring Staff+ engineers and guiding multi-team initiatives
- Advanced skills in systems architecture, cloud-native development, and automation tooling
- Excellent communicator able to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders alike
- Experience building a global SRE practice
- Participation in industry forums, open source, or speaking engagements
- Deep knowledge of service ownership, SLIs/SLOs, and organizational scaling challenges
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.
What you'll get
- Unlimited paid time off, 12 paid holidays, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
- Paid parental leave: 8 weeks for all parents, 16 weeks for birthing parents
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on your first day
- Mental health support, therapy sessions, and digital wellness tools via our Employee Assistance Program
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions
- 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
- Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops, and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning
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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Veeam provides a single platform for modernizing backup, accelerating hybrid cloud and securing data. Veeam has 400,000+ customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 69% of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s 100% channel ecosystem includes global partners, as well as HPE, NetApp, Cisco and Lenovo as exclusive resellers, and boasts more than 35K transacting partners worldwide.
