Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Engineering Manager position sits at a core SaaS infrastructure intersection: protecting Kubernetes-based workloads where reliability, recoverability, and security are product features. The focus on a purpose-built Kubernetes data management platform signals a mature, enterprise-facing environment, with engineering decisions shaped by real operational constraints across major cloud and container distributions.
For a SaaS career, the role offers leverage in two directions that travel well across the ecosystem: people leadership and hands-on technical ownership. Managing hiring and mentoring while still designing and shipping significant features in Go keeps leadership grounded in delivery. Exposure to cloud-native patterns, backup/DR semantics, and documentation discipline builds a platform mindset that is valuable in companies running multi-tenant services with strict uptime and data integrity expectations.
This role best fits an engineering leader who prefers clarity of technical scope and measurable outcomes, and who enjoys collaborating across product and engineering to land complex capabilities. It will also suit someone motivated by cloud-native ecosystems, including open-source engagement, where influence comes from both internal execution and external technical credibility.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes businesses should control all their data whenever and wherever they need it. Veeam provides data resilience through data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence. Based in Seattle, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we move forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands. The future of data resilience is here - go fearlessly forward with us.
About the Role
We are the leader in Kubernetes Backup and Disaster Recovery. Veeam Kasten, our data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams with an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity.
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers and collaborate with them on our Veeam Kasten data management platform, purpose-built for Kubernetes, ensuring top-tier security and excellence.
What You’ll Do
- Leading a team of engineers, mentoring and growing them
- Hiring new engineers and onboarding them to the team
- Collaborating with product managers and other engineering teams to deliver new product features
- Owning (designing, developing in Go, and testing) significant features in the Veeam Kasten product related to backup and recovery of Kubernetes applications, databases, and storage systems
- Working with and contributing to the cloud-native open-source community
- Preparing technical documentation and specifications
Technologies we work with
Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Golang, Bash, Git, OpenShift, Rancher, Google GKE, AWS EKS, Azure AKS, VMware TKG(s), etc. Our team is passionate about code quality, extensibility, coding standards, testing, and automation.
What You’ll Bring
- 5+ years of experience managing a team of engineers
- 5+ years of experience developing enterprise solutions in a high-level programing language such as C++, Java, or C#, and a willingness to learn Go
- Expertise in developing, testing and debugging production-quality, scalable, multi-threaded, concurrent systems
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms)
- A university degree in a technical field or equivalent industry experience
Bonus Skills
- Experience developing in Go
- Experience developing for and on containers, container scheduler, and orchestration platforms
- Active contribution to OSS projects in the Kubernetes/Cloud-Native ecosystem
- Participation in CNCF Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs) or Kubernetes Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
What You’ll Get
- 25 vacation days, 4 sick days, 21 paid medical leave days, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
- Premium private medical insurance for employees and dependents
- Daily meal vouchers for restaurants and groceries (180 CZK per working day)
- Flexible cafeteria platform with thousands of lifestyle benefit options
- Multisport Card for gym and wellness, with family add-on options
- Annual public transport reimbursement up to a set limit
- Corporate mobile plan with optional family tariff
- 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 present outside of the Czech Republic, Veeam reserves the right to refuse to consider the application for a job. Remote job is only possible in case the employee is located in the Czech Republic.
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