Staff Site Reliability Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Oversee the global Site Reliability Engineering team that supports Veeam Data Cloud, Veeam’s SaaS solution.

• Develop reliability features as part of the product code, including deployment safety measures, rate-limiters, circuit breakers, load-shedding adapters, and back-pressure controls.

• Establish and execute an observability platform featuring telemetry pipelines, SLIs/SLOs, error-budget policies, SDKs, CLIs, and plugins.

• Create change-safety tools incorporating canary and blue/green deployments, feature flags, automated rollback, release validation, reusable services, operators, and CI/CD integrations.

• Advance resilience automation through fault-injection APIs, chaos experiments, traffic shadowing, and load/performance harnesses.

• Construct golden-path platform components using Terraform/Pulumi modules, Kubernetes operators, Helm charts, and reference microservice templates.

• Develop incident-learning systems equipped with post-incident automation, context capture, timeline tracking, action tracking, and systemic code fixes.

• Produce high-quality code, design APIs, create tests, and implement iterative shipping.

• Direct designs for distributed, multi-region Azure services ensuring graceful degradation and operational integrity.

• Collaborate with Staff and Principal engineers across product and platform to harmonize reliability standards and promote their adoption.

• Instrument systems, automate detection and response, and maintain actionable alerting protocols.

• Manage complex daytime incidents, promote blameless learning, and execute systemic fixes.

• Guide senior engineers through design reviews, ADRs, and pair programming sessions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software engineering for cloud-based products.

• Extensive experience in designing and managing distributed systems at scale.

• Strong command of at least one backend programming language: C#, Java, Go, or TypeScript/Node.js.

• Experience in developing production-grade services and libraries.

• Practical experience with Kubernetes.

• Infrastructure as code expertise with Terraform or Pulumi.

• CI/CD experience utilizing GitHub Actions, GitLab, or ArgoCD.

• Hands-on observability expertise in metrics, tracing, and logging.

• Proven ability to convert SLOs and error budgets into actionable engineering workflows.

• Capability to lead initiatives across teams, influence architectural decisions, and achieve measurable reliability outcomes.

• Willingness to participate in a follow-the-sun on-call model with 8-hour daytime rotations and coverage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off.

• 12 paid holidays, including 4 global VeeaMe Days for self-care.

• 24 paid volunteer hours each year through Veeam Cares.

• Paid parental leave: 8 weeks for all parents and 16 weeks for birthing parents.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance starting on your first day.

• Mental health support, therapy sessions, and digital wellness tools available via the Employee Assistance Program.

• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions.

• Support for fertility, adoption, and surrogacy through Maven.

• AirVet: 24/7 virtual veterinary care at no cost.

• Access to legal services, identity protection, and supplemental health insurance options.

• Tax-advantaged spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuting expenses.

• Opportunities for learning and growth through LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly, mentoring, workshops, and Global Day of Learning.

• Competitive compensation and flexible work arrangements.

• Compensatory benefits according to local policy for on-call rotations.