Senior Performance Engineer - Veeva

Job Title: Senior Performance Engineer
Job Location: Oregon - Portland
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/veeva/a2bdfe44-d691-4df7-845d-c57e483116b4
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.

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

The Role

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
Learn More
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Perks & Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
Retirement programs
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.