Senior Customer Success Engineer

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. 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

What You’ll Do

• 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

What You’ll Bring

• 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 
• 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. 

Please note: If the applicant is permanently located outside of Italy, Veeam reserves the right to decline the application for the position. Remote work is only possible for employees located in Italy.

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