Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Veeam Software

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

Unlimited PTO
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