Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

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.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Crossix Data Platform is a framework which connects huge patient healthcare data from multiple sources in a privacy safe method on a daily basis to maintain a current view of the US healthcare market. The result enables two core businesses within Veeva: Crossix Analytics, which is dedicated to advancing healthcare marketing with analytics, innovative planning, targeting, measurement, and optimization solutions, And Compass, which enables clients to study and analyze de-identified healthcare data for various needs. Both businesses are positioned at the center of big data, innovative technology and provide most life sciences companies with insights to help make strategic business decisions and drive improved patient outcomes.

As a senior software engineer, you will lead a dedicated team that designs and builds the infrastructure for connecting and analyzing huge, privacy-protected datasets in the cloud using Java, Spark, and other technologies.

What You'll Do

• Work with Product Managers and team members to understand requirements, create and discuss system and feature design documents, and implement solutions
• Architect and build platform capabilities for a set of new scalable data products to support enterprise customers
• Write back-end code in Java, which involves Spark, multiple cloud services, and relational databases
• Build and use monitoring infrastructure to track services, troubleshoot problems, and optimize performance, throughput, and costs
• Investigate production issues and ensure the system is constantly improving
• Work with the production team to track services, troubleshoot problems, and figure out how to reduce costs
• Solve privacy challenges to ensure consumer and patient data is never exposed

Requirements

• 10 + years of experience with server-side Java programming and with big data processing (Experience with the Apache Spark framework)
• B.Sc. in Computer science
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Design skills
• Self-motivated and fast learner with a strong sense of ownership
• Proficient English skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with development for AWS cloud and specifically EMR

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.

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