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Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Veeam
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Role
DevOps
Type
Full Time
Location
Remote, United States
12+ years
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Job Description

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.

About the Role

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

Reliability Strategy & Architecture

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.


Culture & Mentorship

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.


Systems Thinking & Impact

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.


Collaboration & Influence

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.


What We Are Looking For

Required:

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.


Preferred:

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.


Why Join Veeam?

Be a core architect in the rollout of Veeam’s first global SaaS offering—the Veeam Data Cloud.


Help shape a modern, engineering-driven SRE practice from the ground up.


Influence long-term reliability and architecture across a global product portfolio.


Work in a collaborative environment with engineering leaders who value strategic thinking, hands-on problem solving, and customer empathy.


Enjoy competitive pay and benefits, flexible work arrangements, and a team culture built on learning, ownership, and impact.


We offer:
Unlimited PTO
3 global VeeaMe Days per year: company-wide closures for employees to take a break, disconnect, and focus on self-care 
Paid Holidays
Veeam Care Days: 24 hours paid time for volunteering 
Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on day one (multiple plan options) 
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options 
Employer HSA contributions (for HDHP participants) 
Life and AD&D insurance (employee, spouse/partner, and child options) 
Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance 
Supplemental individual disability insurance (IDI) 
Family planning support: fertility, adoption, surrogacy, and parental resources 
Paid parental leave
Employee Assistance Program  
Additional voluntary benefits: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, legal, identity theft protection, commuter benefits, pet care 
Mental health support  
401(k) plan
Professional training and education, on-demand learning libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops, and Global Day of Learning 

The salary range posted is On Target Earnings (OTE), which is inclusive of base and variable pay. When making an offer of employment, Veeam will take into consideration the candidate’s expectations, experience, education, scope of responsibility for the role, and the current market demands.

United States of America Pay Range$215,000—$307,100 USD Veeam Software is an equal opportunity employer and does not tolerate discrimination in any form on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law. All your information will be kept confidential.

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