Senior Performance Engineer

Veeva Systems, Inc.; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to enhance product scalability and performance. In this dynamic role, you'll collaborate with developers and product management to optimize software before release and troubleshoot performance issues in production. This position offers a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a flexible work environment, allowing you to thrive in your preferred setting. If you have a passion for performance engineering and mentoring others, this role is perfect for you, as you will significantly impact the success of innovative applications in the life sciences sector.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Performance Engineering and Benchmarking.
• Proficiency with Java, MySQL, Python, and Shell scripting.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop performance benchmarks for Veeva Applications.
• Monitor production performance and investigate issues.

Skills

Performance Engineering

Benchmarking

Java

MySQL

Python

Shell scripting

JMeter

LoadRunner

Distributed computing systems

Linux

Docker

AWS

GIT

Artifactory

Tools

Yourkit

JMeter

LoadRunner

Job description

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.

Are you passionate about learning new technologies and understanding how they work? Are you interested in an opportunity to work with an upbeat team to help drive its products to a new level? We are looking for a seasoned and creative Senior Performance Engineer to help us focus on the scalability and performance of our products and create meaningful benchmarks that address customer use cases.

At Veeva, each software release is highly scrutinized to meet the demands of our customers. As a Senior Performance Engineer, you'll have a key role in our product’s success. You will work with developers to test and optimize Veeva’s CDMS software prior to its release and monitor and troubleshoot performance issues in production. You will work with product management to get direct exposure to the usage patterns we strive to satisfy. This is a technical and hands-on role for someone who is adept at gathering and analyzing performance data and finding the root cause of performance bottlenecks.

What You'll Do

• Define, develop and achieve performance/scalability benchmarks for Veeva Applications
• Efficiently work with various profiling tools such as Yourkit to identify performance and concurrency bottlenecks
• Collaborate with members of the Engineering team to solve performance problems
• Monitor production performance and investigate issues
• Develop tools to automate performance monitoring

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in Performance Engineering and Benchmarking
• Proficiency with Java, MySQL, and scripting tools such as Python and Shell scripting
• Extensive hands-on experience with performance engineering, including the use of JMeter, LoadRunner or similar tools, as well as profiling tools
• Ability to find the root cause of performance bottlenecks with profiling tools
• Expert in distributed computing systems and stack
• Comfortable with Linux, Docker, AWS, GIT, Artifactory in terms of both tools and systems administration
• 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

Compensation

• Base pay: $120,000 - $220,000
• 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.

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.