Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Python and AI Developer role sits at a point where SaaS products are actively absorbing generative AI capabilities rather than treating them as side experiments. The remit spans REST APIs, backend services, and AI integration across multiple products, which reflects a mature SaaS environment where platform consistency and reliability matter as much as new features. The focus on data resilience and security posture also places the work in a segment of SaaS where trust, governance, and operational safeguards are central to product adoption.
For a long-term SaaS career, the role offers exposure to the mechanics of shipping AI in production: evaluation pipelines, monitoring, cost and latency tradeoffs, and security controls such as prompt injection prevention. These are increasingly transferable skills across SaaS categories as more teams move from prototypes to measurable, supportable AI functionality. Experience spanning cloud tooling, containers, and database-backed services also maps cleanly to modern SaaS engineering expectations.
This position is best suited to senior engineers who prefer end to end ownership from architecture choices through operational readiness. It will appeal to professionals who enjoy balancing pragmatic backend engineering with careful experimentation, and who are comfortable collaborating across product and support functions to land changes that affect more than a single application.
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 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 skilled Senior Python Developer with expertise in REST API development to join our team of professionals. You will become an important part of our project related to integrating AI technologies into existing Veeam products to enhance functionality.
Your tasks will include:
- Developing efficient, secure backend applications and integrating AI solutions into existing products and support systems
- Researching, evaluating, and applying new AI-based technologies to drive optimisation and innovation
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams – including developers, product, and support teams – throughout the project lifecycle
- Contributing to backend systems that support multiple products, beyond a single application
Technologies we work with:
Python, Docker, Azure, Git, AWS, PostgreSQL, .NET
What we expect from you:
- 5+ years of commercial product development experience with Python, focusing on scalable backend services and data manipulation, as well as strong proficiency in Docker for containerisation and deployment
- Demonstrated expertise in building autonomous or semi-autonomous agents (e.g., LangGraph, Pydantic AI Agents), with sound architectural judgment on when to apply LLMs versus traditional code or simpler ML models
- Experience designing automated evaluation pipelines (e.g., Ragas, DeepEval), implementing production monitoring (e.g., Langfuse, Pydantic Logfire), and ensuring solution reliability
- Solid understanding of AI security, including response control, prompt injection prevention, and safety guardrails, along with the ability to optimize throughput, token cost, and latency at scale
- Enthusiasm for learning and experimenting with new technologies and approaches, especially in the rapidly evolving field of AI
- Ability to proactively research and adopt state-of-the-art and emerging workflows, with a focus on exploring new methods in addition to established best practices
Will be an advantage:
- Knowledge of additional programming languages (C#, JavaScript or TypeScript)
- Experience with transformer architectures, fine-tuning (PEFT/LoRA) and self-hosting models
- Previous experience with Veeam products
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
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