Senior Platform 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 $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

We are looking for a user-obsessed Senior Platform Engineer with a proven track record of designing and building internal tools and applications on modern data platforms. You will translate complex data challenges into powerful, user-friendly interfaces, acting as a true solution-builder. This role demands end-to-end ownership - from React frontend design to robust Python/TypeScript backend services, all within a modern, serverless AWS architecture managed with Terraform and GitLab CI.

Our engineering team supports a team of 60+ all-star analytics consultants and data scientists who are solving complex challenges in global healthcare. In this role, you will be the bridge between complex data and the people who need it. You will take our successful pilots and turn them into production-grade applications. You will be architecting tools that help the life sciences industry get medicine to patients faster.

What You'll Do

• Drive User-Centered Design: Engage directly with our internal consultants to gather requirements, understand their workflows, and build intuitive, user-centric tools that enhance their productivity and solve their complex problems
• Build End-to-End Solutions: Architect, develop, and maintain full-stack applications, writing clean frontend code with React and building robust backend services and APIs with Python or TypeScript
• Embrace Serverless & Containers: Design, deploy, and operate services using AWS Lambda for event-driven logic and AWS ECS with Fargate for containerized applications
• Own Your Infrastructure with Terraform: Provision, configure, and manage your applications AWS infrastructure exclusively with Terraform, ensuring your environments are automated, reproducible, and scalable
• Automate with GitLab CI: Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI to test and deploy your serverless and container-based applications safely and efficiently
• Ensure Operational Health: Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance and infrastructure, ensuring high availability and security across the stack

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in a full-stack or frontend-heavy engineering role
• User-Centric Mindset: Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with a proven ability to work with non-technical stakeholders. You must demonstrate strong user empathy and a passion for building tools that people love to use
• Frontend Expertise: Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript and React, with a solid understanding of state management (e.g., Redux, Zustand) and building reusable UI components
• Backend Expertise: Deep knowledge of Python (e.g., FastAPI, Flask) or TypeScript (Node.js) for building scalable, production-grade APIs and backend services
• Cloud Proficiency: Extensive hands-on experience deploying and managing production applications on AWS using services like AWS Lambda, ECS with Fargate, and API Gateway

Perks & Benefits

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

Compensation

• Base pay: $100,000 - $200,000
• 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 at [email protected].