Performance Engineering Manager

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

Veeva is looking for a Performance Engineering Manager to support our Vault CRM Suite of products. For this critical role, you will be responsible for leading the performance engineering initiatives of our best-in-class commercial products including Vault CRM, Approved Email, Events Management, Engage, Align, Nitro, Campaign Manager, and Service Center.

The core responsibility of this role is to build a small but impactful high-functioning Performance engineering team. This team will help scale the performance processes and harness to support products that will drive significant revenue for Veeva.

• Recruit, challenge, and reward A-players
• Ownership of release from an application performance standpoint
• Build and scale infrastructure for running performance tests
• Build performance tools for development teams
• Collaborate with various development team leads to address performance challenges

• 5 years of experience in performance engineering management
• Extensive hands-on experience with performance engineering and benchmarking
• Expertise in using profiling (JMC, VisualVM, YourKit) and benchmarking tools (k6, Locust, JMeter) to identify performance bottlenecks
• Proficiency with Java, relational databases, and scripting tools such as Python and Shell scripting
• Expert in distributed computing systems and stack
• Comfortable with Kubernetes, AWS, and GIT in terms of both tools and systems administration
• Proven ability to hire, mentor, coach, and lead a team to success
• Ability to motivate people, instill accountability, and achieve results
• Experience working with stakeholders to balance competing priorities in roadmap planning, prioritization, and driving innovative solutions to engineering challenges
• Hands-on experience working with production customers in SaaS environments
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, open and receptive to feedback
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree required in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
• We are looking for strong mentors with a proven record of making your team better
• Candidates must be located in the Pacific or Mountain Time zone; Local to the Bay Area preferred
• Applicants must have the unrestricted right to work in the United States. Veeva will not provide sponsorship at this time

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

• Base pay: $120,000 - $300,000
• 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.

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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 talent_accommodations@veeva.com.

Salary : $120,000 - $300,000