Senior Software Engineer – SRE

October 7

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Veeva Systems

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SaaS • Healthcare Insurance • Pharmaceuticals

Veeva Systems is a cloud-computing company focused on the global life sciences industry. It provides software, data, and consulting services to streamline research and development, quality management, regulatory operations, and commercial processes. Veeva's solutions encompass clinical trials, regulatory submissions, drug safety management, and commercial execution to support life sciences enterprises in their mission to improve and extend life.

1001 - 5000 employees

☁️ SaaS

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💊 Pharmaceuticals

📋 Description

• Build Cloud Infrastructure: Rapidly build new cloud infrastructure from scratch, adhering to software development best practices • Drive Reliability & Scalability: Ensure our platform meets the scalability and reliability needs of our hundreds of global customers (across North America, Europe, and Asia) • Lead Incident Management: During an incident, effectively lead triage and mitigation efforts, potentially performing periodic on-call duty for escalations • Automate & Optimize: Develop tools and automation to eliminate manual work and reduce issue resolution times • Full-Stack Diagnostics: Proactively learn all necessary systems to provide full-stack diagnostics and determine root causes of production problems • Strategic Engineering Partnership: Strategize with engineering teams on complex problems, offering insights on what will work at scale (supporting 2M+ users) and guiding development decisions before features ship • Influence Design: Participate in engineering design reviews of new features and drive initiatives to improve operational efficiency and platform scalability • Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner effectively with Product Management, Design, and QA to deliver cutting-edge solutions and direct customer value • Backend Focus: Work across multiple layers of our technology stack, with a primary focus on backend development, and opportunities in frontend and infrastructure • Effective Communication: Communicate clearly with engineering teams, succinctly describing problems for seamless hand-offs during outages with both technical and non-technical audiences • Mentorship: Actively mentor team members, contributing to a positive and high-performing team environment

🎯 Requirements

• Deep Java Expertise: 5+ years of experience in Java development, with a strong preference for experience within enterprise cloud software companies • Operational Experience: Hands-on operational experience in a high-volume or critical production service environment, including incident management and root cause analysis • Code Quality: Proven ability to write clean, testable, readable, and maintainable code within a collaborative team setting • Open Source Proficiency: Hands-on experience with a range of open-source technologies, such as Spring, MySQL, Hibernate, Solr, Maven, Git, Tomcat, Linux, AWS, Vagrant, Docker, and Kubernetes • Database Mastery: 3+ years of experience in relational databases with expert-level SQL skills • Scripting Skills: Solid scripting proficiency with languages such as Shell, Bash, Ansible, Python, Go, Ruby, etc. • Leadership & Communication: Demonstrated history of incident management and leadership ability, with effective communication skills across all levels (individual contributors to executives) • Mentorship: Proven record of making your team better through mentorship • This role requires a working schedule of Monday - Friday, 6 AM - 2 PMEST, and candidates must be located in the EST or AST time zones to be considered

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance • PTO and company-paid holidays • Retirement programs • 1% charitable giving program