Principal Software Engineer - Advance Data Storage

The Role

This is a top software engineer job that incorporates everything you’ve worked so hard for. And with the mission of creating cloud software that helps speed up the innovation and delivery of critical treatments and medicines to patients around the globe, it simply doesn’t get any more important than this.

Your impact as a seasoned technical problem-solver will mean you will be focused on building software that can not only scale for heavy use, but can also evolve with new features and capabilities. And because this role is independent, you will have equal influence to drive the direction of the build, be an advisor to product leadership and mentor freshly minted software engineers in their new careers.

Veeva is the leader in cloud-based software for the global Life Sciences industry. Our platform and applications allow customers to operate more efficiently and safely in order to bring life-saving diagnostics, treatments, and medicines to market faster than any time in history. This industry along with our vertical-specific software is in a period of unprecedented growth over the next five years, and we’re looking for mission-driven software development problem-solvers, thinkers, and doers to keep up with growth.

Veeva is a ‘Work Anywhere’ company, so you can connect with teams in our Pleasanton office while also having the flexibility to work from home. And as a Public Benefit Corporation, you will work for a company with purpose and focused on making a positive impact on society.

What You'll Do

• Work with the senior architects and engineers to design and augment our storage engine to build transactional capabilities
• Solve very complex and challenging problems around consistency, transaction, isolation and performance at scale
• You will own every aspect of your feature from design to implementation and take the feature all the way to production and see it through
• Collaborate with product managers and the quality assurance team to deliver high quality product features by adhering to Veeva's development process and standards
• Passionate to mentor and guide engineers at all levels, review work products of other engineers in the team and evangelize the best practices and coding standards

Requirements

• 12+ years of software development experience with proven track record of building high volume products at scale
• In-depth knowledge of Solr (or) Elasticsearch and deeper understanding of Lucene and familiarity with its source code. Experience in forking, customizing and contributing to open-source projects is good to have
• Proven track record of building and optimizing high-performance distributed systems with strong understanding of database ACID properties and experience with relational or non-relational databases
• Extensive experience developing enterprise SaaS cloud applications
• Hands-on development experience on Java, Spring, Hibernate, Git, Maven or Gradle, Git, jenkins
• Drive and flexibility to roll up your sleeves and work hard (and have fun) in a dynamic startup environment
• We are looking for strong mentors with a proven record of making your team better
• Applicants must have the unrestricted right to work in the United States. Veeva will not provide sponsorship at this time