Lead design and implementation of cloud-native DevOps for a new AI-driven platform. Build IaC, CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, provision and scale infrastructure, improve reliability, and drive engineering best practices and mentorship.
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 $3B 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.
As a Principal DevOps Engineer for a new product within Veeva, you will be a founding member of a team building our next major AI-driven platform—one that will transform how Life Sciences companies manage safety, regulatory, and clinical development.
You will influence and help grow a codebase and engineering organization from the ground up, wearing multiple hats across the engineering organization. The team will be AI-first in two meaningful ways: using AI to drive engineering productivity and strong engineering discipline, and building a product that applies AI in genuinely innovative ways to problems that matter.
Within your first year, you will have live customers on the platform and a thriving, growing team behind it—directly accelerating how customers bring life-saving products to market.
What You'll Do
- Provide in-depth software engineering expertise in cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming
- Implement core DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC), continuous integration, and automated deployments
- Build and manage robust CI/CD workflows to automate full-lifecycle tasks and elevate developer productivity
- Provision, manage, and scale infrastructure using Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes
- Drive architectural design, integration solutions, and engineering best practices across the organization
- Proactively improve system reliability, availability, performance, and durability to minimize operational risk
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps roles, emphasizing tooling, automation, and distributed systems
- Proven track record as a strong mentor dedicated to developing team capabilities
- Extensive experience designing and programming applications in AWS
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration tools (Ansible, Terraform)
- Deep expertise with containerization, serverless architectures, and orchestrators (Kubernetes, OpenShift)
- Proficient in Python, as well as statically typed languages like Java, Scala, or Go
- Hands-on experience setting up and managing CI pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, Codefresh)
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability frameworks to track system health and performance
- Strong technical writing and presentation skills, with experience in proposals, estimation, and documentation
Nice to Have
- Experience with SQL, data modeling, and design
Interviewing with Veeva
- Follow the application process and submit your resume.
- Within 3 days, you will receive a link to a personality assessment administered by a third party.
- Once you complete the assessment, our team will review your full application package and follow up via email with our decision.
- If moving to the interview stage, the process is as follows:
- A conversation with the hiring manager
- A practical case exercise
- A final conversation with our group's Senior Leader.
- Once all interviews are complete, the manager will be in touch with a final decision.
We value your time and believe in a transparent hiring process. Here is the process you can expect.
Perks & Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
- Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
- Retirement programs
- 1% charitable giving program
Compensation
- Base pay: $150,000 - $230,000
- 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.
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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 [email protected].
Veeva Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
Our main office is located in downtown Boston and is within walking distance to great restaurants and cafes. Few minute walk to three T Stations.
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