Sr. Tech Lead - Backend

Veeam is a global leader in data resilience and AI security, dedicated to helping organizations fully understand, secure, and protect their data and AI environments. With headquarters in Seattle and offices in over 30 countries, Veeam supports more than 550,000 customers worldwide, ensuring their businesses remain operational and resilient. As part of our team, you will contribute to building innovative SaaS platforms that address complex data analytics and enterprise challenges, working within a distributed agile environment to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with a globally distributed team of backend engineers to design, develop, and architect the core backend platform.
- Create and maintain architecture documents, functional specifications, design documentation, and developer test plans.
- Lead end-to-end development, deployment, and testing of new features and product enhancements.
- Write reliable, secure, high-performance, and scalable code.
- Conduct thorough code reviews and perform code analysis to ensure quality standards.
- Monitor platform performance and participate in on-call rotations to resolve urgent issues promptly.
- Work closely with customer support teams to address and resolve customer-reported issues.
- Integrate new technologies into the backend cloud infrastructure to enhance platform capabilities.

Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 8 years of professional software development experience, including working with container technologies such as Docker.
- Proven expertise in building highly available and scalable distributed cloud systems.
- Strong understanding of multi-threaded application design and implementation.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as GoLang, Node.js, Java, C++, or Python.
- Solid knowledge of Linux operating systems and bash scripting.
- Familiarity with modern software development practices, including rapid development cycles, peer code reviews, and writing comprehensive functional and unit tests.
- Experience with microservices architecture and RESTful HTTP/2 APIs.
- Working knowledge of both SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Elasticsearch) databases.
- Skilled in performance tuning, profiling, and the use of software metrics tools.
- Excellent diagnostic and troubleshooting abilities with a creative approach to solving complex engineering problems.
- Experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins.
- Strong background in agile development methodologies.
- Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- High energy, teamwork-oriented mindset, and eagerness to learn new technologies.
- Basic understanding of networking and web concepts.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits
- Experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure.
- Familiarity with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Docker.
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Helm.
- Understanding of network services including load balancers, security protocols, and quality of service (QoS).
- Insight into platform-level concerns such as configuration management, network request routing, blue/green or canary deployments, and in-service software upgrades.
- Experience building API-based connectors for cloud-based SaaS services is highly advantageous.

What You’ll Receive
- Competitive compensation package aligned with your experience and skills.
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits to support your well-being.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development within a dynamic, innovative company.

Veeam Software is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. We do not tolerate discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected classification. All candidate information will be handled confidentially and processed in accordance with our Recruiting Privacy Notice. By applying, you affirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete to the best of your knowledge. Any misrepresentation may lead to disqualification or termination of employment.