Senior Platform Engineer (Cloud Workloads)
Veeam Software · San Jose, CA · 4 days ago
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About the role
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Workload team within the Veeam R&D Department. You will own critical observability infrastructure, drive incident response maturity, and help scale proactive support capabilities as operational accountability.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain observability pipelines using the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fleet) across Azure and AWS workloads
- Develop and own SLO/SLI dashboards and error budget reporting for BaaS platform services
- Respond to and lead incident response for distributed, multi-tenant cloud workloads; own runbook creation, maintenance, and continuous improvement
- Build and refine proactive support tooling, including pattern analysis, tenant correlation dashboards, and baseline deviation alerting, to reduce reactive support burden
- Manage and maintain Elastic Fleet agent policies, enrollment health, and log streaming pipelines across Azure and AWS worker fleets
- Partner with SRE, R&D, and Proactive Support teams to close observability gaps, including tenant identification workflows and admin portal integrations
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in cloud platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure roles supporting commercial SaaS products
- Deep hands-on experience with Elastic Stack: Building dashboards, writing KQL/Query DSL, managing Fleet
- Proven experience operating and troubleshooting distributed, multi-tenant workloads on Azure and/or AWS
- Strong understanding of Azure cloud services: AKS, Entra ID, Key Vault, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, Private Endpoints, etc.
- Experience with incident response in production cloud environments, including runbook development and post-incident review
- Experience with IaC tools (Azure Bicep, Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
- Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or PowerShell
- Ability to work cross-functionally with SRE, product, and customer-facing support teams
Bonus Skills
- Familiarity with Veeam Data Platform products
Pay
Compensation range: $150,000 - $200,000 per year, inclusive of base pay and a competitive performance-based bonus.