[Hiring] Principal Software Engineer @Veeva Systems

Role Description

As Principal Software 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.
• 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

• Full Feature Ownership: Own all stages of feature implementation, from design and development through deployment, production support, and maintenance. Daily code contribution using AI assistance for productivity.
• Drive Solutions: Collaborate with Product Management and Development on technical design and problem-solving to deliver great code.
• Rapid Problem Solving: Quickly analyze complex problems, identifying knowns and unknowns, to accelerate the path to robust solutions.
• Develop Best Practices: Define, promote, and mentor on engineering best practices and coding standards, including the latest approaches to AI assisted engineering.
• Expert Code Review: Provide comprehensive code reviews for engineers of all experience levels.
• Strategic Mentorship: Develop the skills of engineering talent through structured mentorship.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of proven software development expertise (Production level Python development required).
• Extensive experience developing high-scale enterprise SaaS cloud applications.
• Proven track record of architecting and building high-volume products at scale.
• Hands-on development experience with current open-source tools and technologies, including Python, Git, FastAPI, Pydantic.
• Highly driven and flexible, enjoys a fast-paced start-up environment, and believes in having fun along the way.
• Proven ability to mentor and elevate team performance, fostering growth and excellence.
• Veeva is a hard-working company.
• Veeva is a PBC and a “do the right thing” company. We expect that from all employees.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.

Requirements

• 12+ years of proven software development expertise (Production level Python development required).
• Extensive experience developing high-scale enterprise SaaS cloud applications.
• Proven track record of architecting and building high-volume products at scale.
• Hands-on development experience with current open-source tools and technologies, including Python, Git, FastAPI, Pydantic.
• Highly driven and flexible, enjoys a fast-paced start-up environment, and believes in having fun along the way.
• Proven ability to mentor and elevate team performance, fostering growth and excellence.
• Veeva is a hard-working company.
• Veeva is a PBC and a “do the right thing” company. We expect that from all employees.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.

Benefits

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