Senior Software Engineer, Reliability

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.

We are looking for a
Senior
Software Engineer, Reliability
, 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.

Yours tasks will include
Reliability Engineering & Resilience

• Design and evolve infrastructure to be highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable across public clouds (initially Azure, with future expansion plans to other providers).
• Establish and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets that define and enforce reliability objectives.
• Lead incident response, analysis, blameless postmortems, and sharing sessions in order to maximize learning across our entire engineering team and driving changes to the entire socio-technical engineering system.

Observability & Operational Excellence

• Drive adoption of deep observability practices, ensuring telemetry, logs, metrics, and tracing are comprehensive and actionable.
• Develop automation and self-healing tools to reduce toil and support Veeam's fleet management strategy.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead operational excellence across the stack.

Engineering at Scale

• Contribute to infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD systems, deployment automation, and scalable config management.
• Integrate and extend monitoring and chaos engineering tools to validate reliability assumptions under load and failure conditions.
• Implement testing strategies, canary deployments, and release validation pipelines to protect production environments and allow teams to safely deliver new features as quickly as possible.

Collaboration & Culture

• Embed within product and platform teams to champion reliability from design through delivery.
• Contribute to a learning culture focused on continuous improvement and proactive risk management.
• Mentor engineers and advocate for DevOps/SRE best practices across global teams.

What We Expect From You

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in a Software Engineering role with at least 2 years in Site Reliability, Platform Engineering, or similar.
• Deep experience building systems on public cloud providers (Azure preferred)
• Strong programming skills in JS, Node, Typescript, Go, Java, C#, or similar.
• Proven track record in delivering monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with IaC tools like Terraform/Pulumi, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, cloud networking, and cloud-native system design.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across geographies and disciplines.

Will Be An Added Advantage

• Experience working on large-scale B2B SaaS platforms.
• Background in chaos engineering, resilience testing, performance testing, load testing, or incident learning programs.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO, SOC 2, GDPR, FEDRAMP/CMMC).

We Offer

• Family Medical Insurance
• Annual flexible spending allowance for health and well-being
• Life insurance
• Personal accident insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• A comprehensive leave package, including parental leave
• Meal Benefit Pass
• Transportation Allowance
• Daycare/Child care Allowance
• Veeam Care Days – additional 24 hours for your volunteering activities
• Professional training and education, including courses and workshops, internal meetups, and unlimited access to our online learning platforms (Percipio, 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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