Staff Software Engineer, Reliability

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 We are looking for 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 Reliability Engineering & Resilience: - 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 - Collaborate with Staff peers across teams to align strategy and champion shared reliability standards and goals - Partner with development and product teams to proactively design for failure, build resilient architecture, and operationalize reliability from the start Observability & Operational Excellence - Drive company-wide adoption of observability best practices and tooling - 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 Engineering At Scale - Lead initiatives in infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and resilience testing - Influence the development and adoption of chaos engineering practices and release validation frameworks - Partner with platform and security teams to ensure production readiness Collaboration & Culture - Work closely with your peer Staff Engineers to plan, align, and deliver against reliability goals - Provide architectural guidance and advocate for engineering rigor and consistency - Represent the SRE team in technical leadership forums and product planning discussions What You'll Bring - 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 Bonus Skills - Experience leading SRE initiatives across multiple product teams - Background in chaos engineering, incident learning, or performance and load testing - Familiarity with global compliance standards (ISO, SOC 2, GDPR, FedRAMP, CMMC) What You'll Get - 18 paid vacation days, plus 3 global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 volunteer hours annually - Private medical coverage for you and up to four dependents - Life, accident, and disability insurance with enhanced coverage - Wellbeing allowance for physical and mental wellness - Free confidential counselling and coaching via Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - Meal, fuel, and transportation benefits based on work arrangement - Daycare reimbursement and safe cab facility for eligible employees - 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 located outside India, Veeam reserves the right to decline the application. 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