Veeam Software

Production Engineering Manager

Veeam Software

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformServiceNow

About the role

  • Build and manage a global Production Engineering team spanning multiple regions
  • Design and operate a follow-the-sun model to guarantee 24×7 ownership of Tier 3 escalations
  • Collaborate with Technical Support, Prod Eng, SRE, and Product Engineering to define escalation workflows, runbooks, and handoff practices
  • Triage, mitigate, and resolve escalated issues quickly
  • Drive down case handle times by improving ticket ownership, providing clear measurements, and returning actionable guidance to Support teams
  • Lead trend analysis of escalations and tickets to identify recurring issues, feature requests, bug reports, and incidents
  • Partner with stakeholders to drive systemic improvements leveraging insights from ticket analysis
  • Reduce handle times and improve customer experience by training agents, building runbooks, and pushing resolution closer to first line support
  • Oversee tool integration (e.g., ServiceNow ↔ Jira) to streamline escalation workflows and maintain accountability
  • Coach Production Engineers in troubleshooting, incident management, and automation
  • Champion automation of repetitive tasks to reduce manual toil and increase team efficiency

Requirements

  • 7+ years in Production Engineering, Technical Support, or similar in B2B SaaS environments
  • 3+ years in a leadership role, including hiring, coaching, and performance management
  • Demonstrable use of data-driven approaches to improving the customer support experience
  • Strong understanding of incident management, root cause analysis, and troubleshooting
  • Excellent cross-functional communication and ability to align diverse stakeholders
  • Proven experience managing globally distributed or shift-based teams
  • Hands on experience with ServiceNow, Jira, Azure DevOps, and/or observability/monitoring tools (advantage)
  • Experience leveraging AI to reduce handle times and overall number of escalations (advantage)
  • Prior work with SRE, DevOps, or Technical Operations teams (advantage)
  • Background in automation, scripting, or tooling to reduce manual effort (advantage)
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) (advantage)
  • Applicants must be permanently located in the United States; remote work is only possible for employees located in the United States
  • Education optional

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Production EngineeringTechnical Supportincident managementroot cause analysistroubleshootingautomationscriptingtoolingdata-driven approachesB2B SaaS
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingperformance managementcross-functional communicationstakeholder alignmenttrend analysiscustomer experience improvementteam efficiencyproblem-solvingtraining
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