Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Security and resilience have become core product expectations in SaaS, not optional add ons. This Success Engineer role sits at that intersection, working on security related use cases within a mature data platform where customer outcomes are tied to measurable posture, telemetry, and risk conversations rather than feature walkthroughs.
For a SaaS career, the role builds a durable skill set around post sales technical influence. It emphasizes translating architectures and maturity models into adoption decisions, engaging executive stakeholders on tradeoffs, and using usage and health signals to guide next steps. Experience gained here tends to transfer across enterprise SaaS environments where expansion is driven by demonstrable operational impact and credible technical guidance.
This position suits professionals who prefer structured customer work with clear artifacts such as readiness checks, design validation, and recurring checkpoint reviews. It will appeal to those who enjoy being a pooled specialist supporting multiple accounts, partnering closely with customer success and sales counterparts, and staying hands on with security, governance, and cloud adjacent technical topics while remaining outcome oriented.
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
The ideal candidate will be naturally collaborative, articulate, extremely organized, have a solid technical understanding of Veeam products, and motivated by maximizing customer success and outcomes. Soft skills combined with technical skills are key in this role. You will partner with Customer Success Engineers (CSEs) and Account Executives (AEs) to drive customer outcomes across security-related products and use cases within the Veeam Data Platform (VDP). You’ll lead readiness checks, data modeling, and risk conversations with CISO/CIO stakeholders, while monitoring telemetry and maturity against the Veeam Data Resilience Maturity Model (DRMM) to optimize posture and identify expansion opportunities.
What You’ll Do
- Engage customers on security-related products, architectures, and risk topics across the Veeam Data Platform (VDP).
- Run readiness checks and lead data modeling to validate solution design and accelerate decisions.
- Monitor attack surfaces and vulnerabilities (including DRMM scoring), track telemetry or recurring inspection signals, report trends, and capture potential health checks.
- Validate designs to de-risk adoption and accelerate time to value.
- Identify and articulate expansion opportunities; review consumption trends and schedule checkpoint reviews (with or without AE coordination).
- Engage CISO/CIO stakeholders for risk, status, and opportunity discussions; synthesize inputs from account health and CSE-led QBRs.
- Support AEs on security- and AI-driven expansion motions; influence roadmap priorities with CSE counterparts.
- Operate as a pooled resource covering Enterprise and Commercial-Named accounts (generally $100K+ ARR), typically at a 1 Security Success Engineer to 6–8 CSE coverage ratio.
- Note: Not the primary owner for Onboarding motions nor directly responsible for Renewals
What You’ll Bring
- 5+ years of experience in engineering architecture for cybersecurity-related products (e.g., Security Engineer/Architect, Cloud Solution Architect, MLOps/ML Engineer).
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field; advanced degree is a plus.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., CompTIA Security+, CISSP, or equivalent).
- Expertise in data security and governance, including DSPM/DLP; familiarity with AI/ML architectures.
- Demonstrated ability to engage CISO/CIO stakeholders on risk, resilience, and modernization roadmaps.
- Hands-on experience with solution design, POCs, telemetry monitoring, and maturity modeling (DRMM familiarity is a plus).
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- VMCE certification (can be completed after joining)
What You’ll Get
- 15–21 annual vacation days, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
- Private medical insurance for employees and eligible dependents, including hospital and surgical coverage, outpatient care, and mental health support
- Dental insurance for employees and dependents
- Life and personal accident insurance, including accidental death, disability, critical illness, and terminal illness
- Annual flexible spending allowance for health and wellbeing expenses
- 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
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