Customer Success Engineer, Veeam
Data backup & recovery platform
Posted today
Data backup & recovery platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower every organization to not just bounce back from a data outage or loss but bounce forward.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 5+ years in customer-facing engineering roles focused on data backup and recovery (e.g., Technical Consulting, Pre-Sales SE, Technical Account Manager); this is a mid-level role
- Advanced level of English and German
- Hands-on expertise across operating systems, virtualization, storage, scripting/automation, cloud platforms, and DR&R best practices
- Strong experience designing and executing protection plans, migrations, and recovery simulations; familiarity with Veeam platform capabilities is a plus
- VMCE certification required (may be completed post-hire within an agreed timeframe)
- Preferred industry certifications: AWS Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional), Microsoft Azure Administrator or Solutions Architect Expert
- Proven ability to translate business outcomes into technical adoption roadmaps and measurable value
- Executive stakeholder engagement skills (CISO/CIO) with the ability to synthesize technical, business, and risk signals into clear recommendations
- Excellent communication, cross-functional collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
What the job involves
- As a Customer Success Engineer, you are the primary technical owner driving long-term customer outcomes across the Veeam Data Platform
- You’ll lead onboarding, adoption, and optimization; proactively identify churn risk, migrations, and upsell opportunities; and apply deep disaster recovery and resilience (DR&R) expertise to conduct recovery simulations, DRMM assessments, and quarterly resilience reporting for measurable customer value
- Configure customer accounts; customize backup policies and storage; facilitate onboarding; orient stakeholders; walk through admin portals; introduce support channels
- Identify migration opportunities; analyze usage and environment; conduct success planning and strategy sessions; align business outcomes with product adoption
- Conduct assessments; build protection plans; recommend software products and architectures across the Veeam Data Platform
- Run recovery simulations; apply the Veeam Data Resilience Maturity Model (DRMM) to track and report resilience posture; deliver quarterly resilience reports
- Monitor signals to detect churn risk early; define mitigation plans; partner on renewal strategy with actionable technical insights
- Build business cases; define TCO; articulate value propositions for expansion; schedule checkpoint reviews with stakeholders
- Engage CISO/CIO stakeholders with clear risk, status, and opportunity updates; support context for executive discussions and roadmap alignment
- Collaborate on marketing-informed campaigns and plays to drive adoption and expansion
- Operate with a long-term account assignment model tied to ARR and growth potential, typically covering 5–50 Enterprise and Commercial-Named accounts with $100K+ ARR
- Own the technical success plan and adoption roadmap; influence pricing, commercial terms, and renewal terms in partnership with Sales and CS leadership
Our take
The increasing reliance of businesses on data, plus the growing volume of data generated, is making organisations more vulnerable to cyberattacks. Veeam is a leading provider of backup, recovery, and data management solutions, focusing on simplifying the recovery process whilst also making it more capable and efficient.
The company's solutions focus on simplifying backups for virtual machines, achieving any recovery objective, maximising investments and reducing management overhead. It currently safeguards data for over 400,000 customers worldwide, including over 80% of the Fortune 500 and 70% of the Global 2,000.
Veeam also continuously introduces product updates, such as cloud-native solutions to protect data across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It has recently appointed new leadership to help drive growth and product development across international markets, as it aims to sustain its leadership position and help clients fight back against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2019
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $500m
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off, plus 3 global VeeaMe Days for self-care
- Paid parental leave: 8 weeks for all parents, 16 weeks for birthing parents
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage from day one
- Mental health support, therapy sessions, and digital wellness tools via SupportLinc EAP
- 401(k) retirement plan with matching contributions up to annual limits
- Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support through Maven, plus paid volunteer time
- AirVet: 24/7 virtual veterinary care at no cost
- Legal services, identity protection, and supplemental health insurance options
- Tax-advantaged spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuting
- Professional training and education, including courses and workshops, internal meetups, and unlimited access to our online learning platforms (LinkedIn Learning, Athena, O’Reilly) and mentoring through our MentorLab program
Company HQ
Lakeview, Kirkland, WA
Leadership
Anand Eswaran
(President & CEO)Former President and Chief Operating Officer at RingCentral, Founding Advisory Board Member of the Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA), and former Corporate Vice President (various departments) at Microsoft. Previous Vice President of Global Services at SAP (Executive), Hewlett-Packard, and Vignette Corp.
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