Senior Staff Software Engineer

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 Staff Software Engineer to join the Veeam Data Cloud (VDC) engineering team at its highest individual contributor tier. In this role, you will shape the long-term technical direction of VDC, operating with organization-wide scope and influence. You will define architectural standards, resolve the most complex and ambiguous engineering challenges, and mentor a generation of Staff and senior engineers. This is a rare opportunity to be a founding technical voice on greenfield projects — designing next-generation data protection services that will be deployed and relied upon worldwide. You will be a trusted partner to engineering leadership, product management, and cross-functional stakeholders, bridging technical excellence with business strategy. What You’ll Do Technical Strategy Architecture Own and drive the multi-year technical roadmap for the Veeam Data Cloud platform, aligning engineering decisions with company strategy. Define, communicate, and enforce architectural standards, design patterns, and engineering principles across multiple teams and product areas. Lead architectural reviews for major systems, proactively identifying structural risks and establishing long-term scalability and resilience frameworks. Author foundational technical design documents (RFCs, ADRs) that serve as the engineering blueprint for the broader organization. Engineering Execution Excellence Personally contribute to the most critical, highest-complexity engineering challenges across the organization — including those that span team boundaries. Design and develop highly reliable, planet-scale SaaS microservices integrated with managed cloud services (Azure, AWS, GCP) using Golang and modern cloud-native patterns. Establish and champion engineering quality standards: testing philosophy, observability, performance benchmarks, security posture, and release reliability. Drive the adoption of emerging engineering practices — including AI-powered developer tooling, automated code generation, and LLM-assisted testing and debugging. Organizational Leadership Influence Serve as the primary technical escalation point across engineering — resolving the most ambiguous, cross-cutting problems that no individual team can own alone. Partner with engineering managers and directors to set execution standards, unblock delivery, and ensure timely, predictable outcomes across multiple teams. Represent engineering in cross-functional leadership forums (product, security, infrastructure, finance) and act as a decision-maker on technical trade-offs with business impact. Drive the organization-wide engineering culture: nurturing psychological safety, technical curiosity, and a bias toward measurable outcomes. Mentorship Talent Development Provide deep technical mentorship to Staff, Senior, and mid-level engineers, accelerating their growth and expanding team capability. Lead structured technical coaching, design review sessions, and architectural war-games to sharpen engineering judgment across the organization. Identify, recruit, and help retain top engineering talent; actively shape the interview process and hiring bar for senior roles. Operational Ownership Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response for critical production events, driving root ca ... (truncated, view full listing at source)