Description:

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster.
The company has surpassed $2B in revenue in its last fiscal year and has extensive growth potential ahead.
Veeva is a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balance the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.
The role of Principal Software Engineer involves creating cloud software that speeds up the innovation and delivery of critical treatments and medicines globally.
The engineer will focus on building scalable software that evolves with new features and capabilities.
This independent role allows for significant influence in driving the direction of the build, advising product leadership, and mentoring new software engineers.
Responsibilities include designing and augmenting the storage engine, solving complex problems around consistency and performance, owning features from design to production, and collaborating with product managers and quality assurance teams.
The company supports a flexible work environment, allowing employees to work from home or in the office.

Requirements:

Candidates must have 12+ years of software development experience with a proven track record of building high-volume products at scale.
In-depth knowledge of Solr or Elasticsearch, a deeper understanding of Lucene, and experience with open-source projects are preferred.
A strong background in building and optimizing high-performance distributed systems, with a solid understanding of database ACID properties and experience with relational or non-relational databases, is required.
Extensive experience in developing enterprise SaaS cloud applications is necessary.
Hands-on development experience with Java, Spring, Hibernate, Git, Maven or Gradle, and Jenkins is essential.
Candidates should possess the drive and flexibility to work hard in a dynamic startup environment and have a proven record of mentoring and improving team performance.
Applicants must have the unrestricted right to work in the United States, as Veeva will not provide sponsorship.