Sr Customer Success Engineer - Bilingual French (Remote: Montreal)

Veeam Software; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 118,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation 15–25 days + global days

Paid parental leave

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Mental health support

RRSP retirement plan with matching

Fertility support

Volunteer hours

On-demand learning resources

Job summary

Veeam Software seeks a Senior Customer Success Engineer to act as the trusted technical owner for enterprise accounts, guiding activation, adoption, and renewal. You’ll align technical adoption with business objectives and deliver tailored success plans across the portfolio.

You will collaborate with Sales and CS leadership to identify expansion opportunities, deliver executive reviews, and strengthen resilience and recovery strategies for high-value customers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in customer-facing technical roles with data protection focus.
• Ability to translate business goals into technical roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
• Executive-level communication to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical relationship for strategic enterprise accounts across lifecycle.
• Develop tailored Customer Success Plans aligned to objectives and success criteria.
• Guide activation, adoption, optimization, and renewal with measurable value.
• Conduct health reviews, architecture discussions, and resilience planning.
• Provide executive-ready reviews to directors, VPs, and CISOs.

Skills

Executive communication

Customer-facing

Technical advisory

Risk assessment

Strategic planning

Collaboration

Health checks

Education

VMCE certification

Tools

VMware

Azure

AWS

Backup & Recovery

Job description

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.

About The Role

The ideal candidate is naturally collaborative, articulate, highly organized, and passionate about helping customers achieve measurable business outcomes. Success in this role requires a combination of strong technical expertise, business acumen, executive communication skills, and a customer-first mindset.

As a Senior Customer Success Engineer (CSE), you serve as the customer's trusted technical advisor and primary technical owner, guiding customers through customer activation, adoption, optimization, expansion, and renewal. You will develop and execute tailored Customer Success Plans, align technical adoption to business objectives, strengthen customers’ resilience posture, and proactively identify opportunities and risks throughout the customer lifecycle. Success in this role requires the ability to understand each customer's unique goals, challenges, and environment, then translate those insights into a personalized strategy that drives measurable outcomes.

You will leverage deep expertise across the Veeam portfolio to help customers maximize value, improve recovery readiness, advance data resilience maturity, and achieve their desired outcomes while partnering closely with Sales, Customer Success leadership, and other Veeam teams.

What You’ll Do

• Own the technical customer relationship for a portfolio of strategic Enterprise and Commercial Named accounts, serving as a trusted advisor throughout the customer lifecycle
• Build, maintain, and advance tailored Customer Success Plans aligned to each customer's business objectives, technical priorities, desired outcomes, and success criteria
• Guide customer activation, drive adoption and optimization, and help customers realize measurable value from their investment across the Veeam portfolio
• Conduct health assessments, architecture reviews, protection strategy evaluations, and solution adoption planning across the Veeam portfolio
• Assess recovery readiness, identify opportunities to improve resilience, and provide strategic recommendations aligned to customer objectives
• Facilitate recovery simulations, resilience reviews, and best-practice discussions to strengthen customer confidence and preparedness
• Monitor customer health signals and adoption trends to proactively identify risk, develop mitigation plans, and improve retention outcomes
• Partner with Account Executives and Customer Success leadership to identify expansion opportunities through customer outcomes, product adoption, and demonstrated business value
• Develop executive-ready business reviews, resilience reports, and success updates for technical and executive stakeholders, including Director, Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, and Chief Information Officer audiences
• Coordinate and advocate across Veeam teams to remove blockers, accelerate outcomes, and ensure a consistent customer experience
• Deliver strategic guidance around data protection, recovery, cyber resilience, cloud adoption, operational efficiency, and portfolio optimization
• Maintain a high-touch engagement model supporting a limited portfolio of high-value customers, typically accounts with more than $200,000 in annual recurring revenue
• Own the technical success plan and adoption roadmap; provide technical insight, customer outcome validation, and risk assessments that support renewal and expansion strategy in partnership with Sales and Customer Success leadership

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles such as Customer Success Engineering, Technical Account Management, Solutions Engineering, Consulting, Professional Services, or similar positions focused on data protection and recovery technologies
• Strong technical expertise across backup and recovery, virtualization, operating systems, storage, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, and automation technologies
• Experience designing and validating protection strategies, recovery preparedness programs, modernization initiatives, and migration projects
• Proven ability to translate customer business objectives into technical roadmaps, adoption strategies, and measurable outcomes
• Strong executive communication skills with experience presenting technical, operational, and risk-based recommendations to senior stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple strategic customer relationships while driving measurable success outcomes
• Proven consultative mindset with the ability to adapt engagement strategies and success plans to varying customer priorities, technical environments, and business challenges
• Excellent collaboration, communication, stakeholder management, and consultative problem-solving skills
• Experience conducting technical assessments, health reviews, architecture discussions, and executive business reviews
• VMCE certification required or obtained within an agreed-upon timeframe following hire

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of the Veeam portfolio and data resilience technologies, including backup, recovery, cyber resilience, cloud data protection, and related solutions.
• AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional), Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent cloud platform certifications
• Security-focused certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), CompTIA Security+, or equivalent
• Infrastructure and enterprise platform certifications such as VMware Certified Professional (VCP), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), Microsoft Windows Server certifications, Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), or equivalent
• Experience working with enterprise-scale environments, cyber resilience initiatives, ransomware recovery planning, disaster recovery programs, or information security frameworks
• Experience advising executive and technical stakeholders on resilience, security, cloud modernization, or infrastructure transformation initiatives

What You’ll Get

• Paid vacation starting at 15 days per year and increasing to 20 or 25 days based on tenure, with 4 additional global VeeaMe Days and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
• Paid parental leave that includes 3 weeks for all parents and 12 weeks for birthing parents
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage from day one
• Mental health support, therapy sessions, and digital wellness tools
• RRSP retirement plan with matching contributions
• Fertility support, plus 24 paid volunteer hours through Veeam Cares
• AirVet: 24/7 virtual veterinary care at no cost
• 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

Compensation Transparency

Veeam is committed to pay transparency and equitable compensation. For this role, the compensation range below reflects the expected total target compensation (TTC), inclusive of base pay and a competitive performance-based bonus. For roles with a commission plan, the compensation range represents On Target Earnings (OTE), which includes base salary plus variable commission. When determining compensation, Veeam takes into consideration factors such as experience, education, and skills. Offers are typically made below the midpoint of the range.

Pay Range

$118,000—$219,200 CAD

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