About this System Reliability Engineer role at Veeam Software
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 Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team and ensure the continuous, reliable operation of company services. This role involves proactive monitoring, incident response, and building resilient observability and escalation practices across our infrastructure.
What You'll Do
- Ensure monitoring and uninterrupted operation of company services
- Write and maintain alerting rules and runbooks
- Perform triage of incoming incidents and initial diagnosis of issues
- Build and maintain escalation chains for incident response
- Perform technical incident resolution activities according to runbooks
- Participate in on-call rotations and post-incident reviews (RCA/postmortems)
- Continuously improve observability coverage and reduce alert noise/false positives
- Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to identify reliability risks and implement preventive measures
What You'll Bring
- Experience with observability tools (Grafana, ELK, VictoriaMetrics)
- Experience working with Linux
- Experience working with Kubernetes (k8s)
- Experience with AWS and Azure cloud platforms
- Ability to analyze incidents, identify root causes, and propose remediation steps
Bonus Skills
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar)
- Scripting skills (Python, Bash) for automation of operational tasks
- Understanding of DevOps and CI/CD principles
- Experience with incident management tools (PagerDuty, Opsgenie, etc.)
- Effective communication skills and a collaborative approach to teamwork
What You'll Get
- Two weeks of paid vacation, 12 statutory holidays, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
- Paid parental leave: 8 days for fathers, 122 days for birthing parents, 92 days for adoptive parents
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage fully funded through INS Premium for employees and dependents
- Mental health support, therapy sessions, and virtual care via our Employee Assistance Program
- Retirement and social security contributions through Costa Rica's statutory programs
- Life insurance equal to 24x monthly salary, plus disability and funeral coverage
- Daily cafeteria subsidy
- Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support, plus 24 paid volunteer hours through Veeam Cares
- 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: The position is based in San Jose, Costa Rica. If the applicant is permanently located outside of Costa Rica, Veeam reserves the right to decline the application. All applications must be submitted in English.
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