Veeam Software

Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Veeam Software

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsOpen Source

About the role

  • 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

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
  • Preferred: Experience building a global SRE practice
  • Preferred: Participation in industry forums, open source, or speaking engagements
  • Preferred: Deep knowledge of service ownership, SLIs/SLOs, and organizational scaling challenges