Senior Performance Engineer

Veeva Systems, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative firm that is transforming the life sciences industry through cutting-edge technology. As a Senior Performance Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing product scalability and performance. Collaborate with a dynamic team to define and achieve performance benchmarks, troubleshoot issues, and develop automation tools. This position offers the flexibility to work from home or in the office, ensuring you thrive in your ideal environment. Embrace the opportunity to make a real impact in a mission-driven organization that values employee success and customer satisfaction.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Company paid holidays

1% charitable giving program

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Performance Engineering and Benchmarking.
• Expert in distributed computing systems and stack.
• Strong mentoring skills with a proven record.

Responsibilities

• Define and achieve performance benchmarks for Veeva Applications.
• Collaborate with Engineering team to solve performance problems.
• Develop tools to automate performance monitoring.

Skills

Performance Engineering

Benchmarking

Java

MySQL

Python

Shell Scripting

JMeter

LoadRunner

Distributed Computing

Linux

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

AWS

GIT

Artifactory

Yourkit

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 apublic benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As aWork 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
• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
• Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
• 1% charitable giving program

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. 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 [e-mail] .

Work Where It’s Best for You

Work Anywhere means you can work in an office or at home on any given day. It’s about getting the work done in the way and place that works best for each person. This applies across all locations and departments.

Work Anywhere does not mean work at any time. We have predictable core hours where employees are generally available for meetings and collaboration. Employees are focused and available during core hours.

We invest in our offices to make them places where our employees like to go. If you work in the office three or more days a week, you will have a dedicated office workspace. Our offices function as hubs to draw people in, create social bonds, and where random connections and mixing of ideas happen. We’re investing more in offices, culture, and offsite meetings, not less.

Product teams are organized in regional product hubs for optimal collaboration and live within a time zone of their hub. Our current product hubs are located in Pleasanton, Columbus, Boston, Kansas City, New York City, Raleigh, and Toronto. We create opportunities for teams to get together in person regularly.

Customer-facing roles, such as Sales and Professional Services, live near and/or travel to their customers.

When an employee moves within a country it does not cause a change in salary. Where you live impacts you and your family. Not knowing if your compensation will change if you move can cause stress and uncertainty for everyone. We wanted to eliminate that.

Work at Veeva. Work where it’s best for you.

A different kind of company. A Public Benefit Corporation.

Unlike a traditional corporation, whose only legal duty is to maximize shareholder value, PBCs consider their public benefit purpose and the interests of those materially affected by the corporation’s conduct—including customers, employees, and the community—in addition to shareholders’ interests.

What sets us apart

In February 2021, Veeva became the first public company to convert to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC).

Unlike a traditional corporation, whose only legal duty is to maximize shareholder value, PBCs consider their public benefit purpose and the interests of those materially affected by the corporation’s conduct—including customers, employees, and the community—in addition to shareholders’ interests.

Veeva’s public benefit purpose is to help make the industries we serve more productive and create high-quality employment opportunities.

“Veeva’s engineering teams take a pragmatic approach to software development. We offer an ideal environment for engineers who value focus, speed and integrity in their work.”