Principal DevOps Engineer

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 $3B 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 As a Principal DevOps Engineer for a new product within Veeva, you will be a founding member of a team building our next major AI-driven platform—one that will transform how Life Sciences companies manage safety, regulatory, and clinical development. You will influence and help grow a codebase and engineering organization from the ground up, wearing multiple hats across the engineering organization. The team will be AI-first in two meaningful ways: using AI to drive engineering productivity and strong engineering discipline, and building a product that applies AI in genuinely innovative ways to problems that matter. Within your first year, you will have live customers on the platform and a thriving, growing team behind it—directly accelerating how customers bring life-saving products to market.

What You'll Do: Provide in-depth software engineering expertise in cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming Implement core DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC), continuous integration, and automated deployments Build and manage robust CI/CD workflows to automate full-lifecycle tasks and elevate developer productivity Provision, manage, and scale infrastructure using Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes Drive architectural design, integration solutions, and engineering best practices across the organization Proactively improve system reliability, availability, performance, and durability to minimize operational risk Requirements: 5+ years of experience in DevOps roles, emphasizing tooling, automation, and distributed systems Proven track record as a strong mentor dedicated to developing team capabilities Extensive experience designing and programming applications in AWS Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration tools (Ansible, Terraform) Deep expertise with containerization, serverless architectures, and orchestrators (Kubernetes, OpenShift) Proficient in Python, as well as statically typed languages like Java, Scala, or Go Hands-on experience setting up and managing CI pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, Codefresh) Familiarity with monitoring and observability frameworks to track system health and performance Strong technical writing and presentation skills, with experience in proposals, estimation, and documentation Nice to Have: Experience with SQL, data modeling, and design Interviewing with Veeva: We value your time and believe in a transparent hiring process. Here is the process you can expect. Follow the application process and submit your resume. Within 3 days, you will receive a link to a personality assessment administered by a third party. Once you complete the assessment, our team will review your full application package and follow up via email with our decision. If moving to the interview stage, the