Staff Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role

Veeam is launching a global Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) function to support the rollout and operation of our new SaaS offering: the Veeam Data Cloud. As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, 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.

What You’ll Do

• Act as a technical authority in your area, mentoring senior engineers and guiding design choices that improve service reliability and resilience
• Lead the definition and enforcement of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; drive adherence across engineering teams
• Ensure metrics, logs, and traces provide deep, actionable insights across systems
• Lead complex incident responses, postmortems, and systemic reliability improvements
• Promote and enforce a blameless culture of learning and continuous improvement
• Lead initiatives in infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and resilience testing
• Influence the development and adoption of chaos engineering practices and release validation frameworks
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams - including engineering, product, platform, and security - to align strategies, establish reliability standards, and ensure resilient, production-ready architecture from the outset
• Provide architectural guidance and advocate for engineering rigor and consistency
• Represent the SRE team in technical leadership forums and product planning discussions

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years of experience in a Software Engineering or SRE role, including technical leadership
• Demonstrated experience mentoring and guiding senior engineers
• Deep expertise in building distributed systems on public cloud (Azure preferred)
• Strong skills in programming (e.g., JS, Go, Typescript, Java, or C#)
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Mastery of infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Pulumi) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Ability to communicate clearly across geographies and disciplines

Bonus Skills

• Familiarity with global compliance standards (ISO, SOC 2, GDPR, FedRAMP, CMMC)

What You’ll Get

• 25 vacation days, 4 sick days, 21 paid medical leave days, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
• Premium private medical insurance for employees and dependents
• Daily meal vouchers for restaurants and groceries (180 CZK per working day)
• Flexible cafeteria platform with thousands of lifestyle benefit options
• Multisport Card for gym and wellness, with family add-on options
• Annual public transport reimbursement up to a set limit
• Corporate mobile plan with optional family tariff
• Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning