Site Reliability Engineer III

Veeam; India; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 vacation days + 4 global VeeaMeDays

Private medical coverage

Wellbeing allowance

Counselling & coaching (EAP)

Meal & transportation benefits

Daycare reimbursement

Learning & development programs

Job summary

Veeam is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Reliability to lead as a hands-on technical leader within the SRE team. You will guide senior engineers, influence product teams, and ensure systems are reliable, scalable, and observable from ground up. Mentorship and architectural best-practice advocacy are core to this role.

You will drive reliability initiatives, establish SLIs/SLOs, participate in on-call rotations, and help scale SRE principles globally across Veeam.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Software Engineering with at least 2 years in SRE/Platform Engineering.
• Strong cloud experience (Azure preferred).
• Proven track record in monitoring, alerting and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure across public clouds.
• Lead incident response, postmortems and learning sessions.
• Drive reliability, observability and automation initiatives across teams.

Skills

Azure cloud

JS/TS/Go/Java

Observability tooling

Terraform/Pulumi

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Communication skills

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

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.

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

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Reliability, 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

Reliability Engineering & Resilience

• Design and evolve infrastructure to be highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable across public clouds (initially Azure, with future expansion plans to other providers).
• Establish and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets that define and enforce reliability objectives.
• Lead incident response, analysis, blameless postmortems, and sharing sessions in order to maximize learning across our entire engineering team and driving changes to the entire socio-technical engineering system.

Observability & Operational Excellence

• Drive adoption of deep observability practices, ensuring telemetry, logs, metrics, and tracing are comprehensive and actionable.
• Develop automation and self-healing tools to reduce toil and support Veeam's fleet management strategy.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead operational excellence across the stack.

Engineering at Scale

• Contribute to infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD systems, deployment automation, and scalable config management.
• Integrate and extend monitoring and chaos engineering tools to validate reliability assumptions under load and failure conditions.
• Implement testing strategies, canary deployments, and release validation pipelines to protect production environments and allow teams to safely deliver new features as quickly as possible.

Collaboration & Culture

• Embed within product and platform teams to champion reliability from design through delivery.
• Contribute to a learning culture focused on continuous improvement and proactive risk management.
• Mentor engineers and advocate for DevOps/SRE best practices across global teams.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in a Software Engineering role with at least 2 years in Site Reliability, Platform Engineering, or similar.
• Deep experience building systems on public cloud providers (Azure preferred)
• Strong programming skills in JS, Node, Typescript, Go, Java, C#, or similar.
• Proven track record in delivering monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with IaC tools like Terraform/Pulumi, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, cloud networking, and cloud-native system design.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across geographies and disciplines.

Bonus Skills

• Experience working on large-scale B2B SaaS platforms.
• Background in chaos engineering, resilience testing, performance testing, load testing, or incident learning programs.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO, SOC 2, GDPR, FEDRAMP/CMMC).

What You’ll Get

• 18 paid vacation days, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self‑care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
• Private medical coverage for you and up to four dependents
• Life, accident, and disability insurance with enhanced coverage
• Annual flexible wellbeing allowance for physical and mental wellness
• Free confidential counselling and coaching via Employee Assistance Program (EAP), including legal and financial advice
• Meal, fuel, and transportation benefits based on work arrangement
• Daycare reimbursement and safe cab facility for eligible employees
• 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

Please note

If the applicant is permanently located outside India, Veeam reserves the right to decline the application.

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