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Veeva Systems

Principal DevOps Engineer

Veeva Systems, WorkFromHome

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Overview

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. Veeva is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies, with over $2B in revenue in the last fiscal year. As a Work Anywhere company, we support flexibility to work from home or in the office.

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

The Role

The Veeva Nitro team is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to design and build our next-gen infrastructure on AWS. Lead the migration of our platform and create a new, scalable environment from scratch. You’ll have complete ownership over tooling and the CI/CD pipeline in a startup-like setting. This is a hands-on role for a self-starter who balances performance, cost, and reliability.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead the architectural vision with deep expertise in cloud architecture, design patterns, and scalable infrastructure.
  • Drive DevOps best practices with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible to manage, deploy, and scale infrastructure.
  • Build the CI/CD pipeline and end-to-end workflows to streamline deployments across Development, QA, Stage, and production.
  • Ensure platform reliability focusing on durability, availability, performance, and correctness.
  • Shape the future of the stack with architectural enhancements, security policies, and new methodologies.

Requirements

  • Experienced DevOps professional with at least 5 years of hands-on experience in automation, tooling, and building distributed, scalable systems.
  • AWS expertise with design and implementation of deployment architectures in AWS (VPC, EKS, EC2, IAM, S3, etc.).
  • Containerization & orchestration experience (Kubernetes or similar).
  • Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or Ansible.
  • CI/CD & Git experience (GitLab; Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD).
  • Monitoring & observability familiarity; Grafana, Prometheus, and Elasticsearch are a plus.
  • Location: PST or MST time zone preferred.
  • Unrestricted right to work in the United States (no visa sponsorship available).

Nice to Have

  • Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash or Groovy.
  • Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Elasticsearch).
  • Knowledge of artifact management solutions (Nexus, ECR).
  • Familiarity with code validation and linting tools (Sonar).

Learn More

  • Engineer Perspective: 3 Reasons to Consider Veeva
  • Engineering at Veeva

Perks & Benefits

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

Compensation

  • Base pay: $150,000 - $300,000

Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries. 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. If you need accommodation during the application process, please contact

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