Veeam
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’re hiring a founding engineer and technical lead for a portfolio of AI-assisted learning and enablement tools. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for architecture, development, infrastructure, and mentoring as the team grows. You’ll partner closely with subject-matter experts and instructional designers to ensure the platform is secure, scalable, and maintainable.
Why this role: A founding-lead opportunity on a greenfield AI platform with high autonomy, a modern buildless stack, and an AI-native workflow.
Work model: based on this role’s business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants based in Romania.
What You’ll Do
- Own cross-project architecture, including data models, authentication, access control, logging, and deployment
- Set and enforce code review and architectural standards
- Build and maintain async Python services over PostgreSQL
- Own CI/CD, DevOps processes, and release strategy
- Manage infrastructure (databases, VMs, storage, backups, observability)
- Develop a governed data-to-content pipeline for AI-driven knowledge generation
- Implement cybersecurity and responsible AI controls
- Mentor and support team development
What You’ll Get
- 21 annual vacation days, additional days based on tenure, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
- Private health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents, including outpatient care, hospitalization, pregnancy monitoring, and psychology support
- Monthly lifestyle and daily meal benefits: 40 RON/day via Edenred and 600 RON/month through a flexible cafeteria platform
- Life insurance (2× annual gross salary), critical illness, and disability coverage, plus vision reimbursement
- Free access to Bookster library platform for borrowing your favorite books for free
- 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
What You’ll Bring
- At least 5 years of strong async Python and modern web framework experience
- PostgreSQL data modeling and optimization
- Modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (ES modules)
- Web security (OIDC/OAuth2, JWT, RBAC)
- API design for scalable HTTP/JSON services
- Git and CI/CD expertise
- Experience integrating LLM APIs and handling structured outputs
- Experience parsing structured/unstructured content (PDF, DOCX, HTML, etc.)
- Comfort working across databases, object storage, and Git
- Docker, Linux, and Bash fundamentals
- Interest in AI pipeline evaluation and observability
- Strong learning mindset and collaborative approach
Bonus Skills
- C# / .NET / PowerShell (review level)
- Node.js for tooling and document generation
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Programmatic document/presentation generation
