Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure

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Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead. At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We’re not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors. As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment. Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Veeva’s Vault Platform is the industry-leading foundation enabling our Life Sciences customers—from emerging biotechs to global pharma giants—to run and manage clinical trials, ensure strict compliance with global regulations, and safely manufacture life‑saving medicines. The Infrastructure team is responsible for architecting and operating the massively scalable, robust, and highly available platform that powers every application built on Veeva Vault. We leverage a diverse, modern stack of cloud‑native and open‑source technologies to deliver a secure, distributed, and high‑performance system. We are seeking Senior Software Engineers who enjoy hands‑on work, fast‑paced release cycles, fine‑tuning for maximum performance and quality.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of distributed, high-throughput cloud services from concept to production
• Architect and optimize existing infrastructure to fully leverage cloud elasticity and achieve multi‑tenant scale
• Drive initiatives for Immutable Infrastructure and containerization using Docker and IaC patterns
• Serve as a technical mentor and subject matter expert, elevating the team's engineering standards
• Own the entire feature lifecycle, ensuring systems are scalable, highly available, and easily maintainable

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, primarily in Java (or a similar OOP language) at an enterprise level
• Deep expertise and hands‑on programming experience with core AWS services (EC2, IAM, Route 53, Auto Scaling, ELB, S3, VPC, etc.)
• Proven ability to configure and develop with MySQL (or similar database), including building and managing complex replication chains and multi‑master setups
• Strong experience with the modern stack: Spring/Spring Boot, Git, Jenkins/CI/CD, Tomcat, and Linux
• Expertise in Immutable Infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) utilizing Docker, Ansible, Terraform, or Packer
• Proficiency in scripting (Python/Shell) for automation
• Demonstrated ability to write clean, well‑tested code and serve as a strong technical mentor
• High work ethic. Veeva is a hard‑working company
• High integrity and honesty. Veeva is a PBC and a “do the right thing” company. We expect that from all employees
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills. Engineering is not all about the code, it’s also about communication
• Applicants must have the unrestricted right to work in the United States. Veeva will not provide sponsorship at this time

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) orchestration
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)

Learn More

• Engineer Perspective: 3 Reasons to Consider Veeva
• Engineering at Veeva

Perks & Benefits

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

Compensation

• Base pay: $110,000 - $270,000
• The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Industries

• Software Development, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at View email address on click.appcast.io.