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.
The Role
At Veeva Link, we're building the intelligence layer for life sciences, creating connected data applications that accelerate drug development and significantly improve patient outcomes. Our core belief: combining the highest quality data with state-of-the-art software delivers immense value.
We believe execution matters most. Progress comes from speed, accuracy, and quality in what we build every day. Our engineering approach emphasizes clear product definitions leading to meticulous technical designs. We leverage a modern tech stack to deliver inherently reliable applications and a great user experience.
Our work spans two critical areas:
Data-Driven Insights
We develop sophisticated applications that map and understand global scientific and medical expertise, providing high-impact insights and AI-generated intelligence. Engineers here tackle complex data modeling, entity resolution, and advanced machine learning.
Intelligent Business Workflows
We engineer workflow applications powered by our data, using AI to find patterns and route information precisely. This involves designing scalable pipelines and intelligent automation.
Why Join Veeva Link?
Build products that create significant positive impact in global healthcare.
Work in an environment led by a CEO with an engineering background.
Work Anywhere means you can work in an office or at home on any given day.
Empowered Autonomy: Tech decisions are made within teams, giving engineers significant autonomy.
Collaborate with highly skilled teammates who take pride in achieving great outcomes. Excellence matters.
What You'll DoThis role is critical to the success of Veeva Link, as your work directly impacts the availability, scalability, and security of applications that serve the life sciences industry. You'll play a foundational part in delivering our mission with speed, reliability, and trustThis role offers an exciting opportunity to solve complex, high-impact infrastructure challenges within the AWS ecosystem, directly contributing to a meaningful mission in life sciences. You'll collaborate across teams, innovating and making key decisions that shape the future of our platformYou'll execute by designing secure AWS infrastructure and leading incident response. You'll own core cloud-native systems by defining best practices. And you'll lead architecture reviews and initiatives for operational excellenceChampion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) as a core methodology, using tools like AWS CloudFormation to build, manage, and version our cloud environments, ensuring consistency and eliminating manual configurationPartner directly with engineering teams to optimize system performance, troubleshoot issues, ensure high availability, and implement stringent security measures across all applicationsEstablish, document, and actively apply infrastructure patterns, architectural best practices, and coding standards, fostering a culture of excellence and consistencyLead comprehensive architecture reviews, contribute directly to critical system design decisions, and evaluate new cloud tools and services to continuously enhance platform capabilitiesProvide expert, hands-on support for incident response, conduct thorough root-cause analyses, and drive proactive system hardening efforts to maintain robust and secure production environmentsRequirements5+ years of experience in the software development industry, including 3+ years focused on cloud infrastructure or platform engineeringStrong hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., EC2, VPC, RDS, IAM, S3)Proficient in Python with a solid grasp of software design principles and automation best practicesSolid understanding of web application architecture and common distributed system patterns (e.g., microservices, APIs, load balancing, caching)Deep understanding of infrastructure security, including IAM, encryption, and network architectureSolid experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and container orchestration platforms (e.g., Amazon ECS, EKS)Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools, preferably AWS CloudFormationExperience working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) for schema management and troubleshootingExperience managing production environments, including incident response and root-cause analysisFluent in English (written and verbal)Nice to HaveExperience with: OAuth, serverless (e.g., Lambda)Familiarity with: ISO 27001, distributed tracing, penetration testing, queueing systems (e.g., SQS), CDNs#RemoteUK
Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.
As an equal opportunity employer, Veeva is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and growing a diverse workforce. Diversity makes us stronger. It comes in many forms. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, sexual orientation, age, disability and life experience shape us all into unique individuals. We value people for the individuals they are and the contributions they can bring to our teams.
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 talent_accommodations@veeva.com.