Performance 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
At Veeva, each software release is highly scrutinized to meet the demands of our customers. As a Performance Engineer, you'll have a key role in our product’s success. You will work with developers to test and optimize Veeva’s software prior to its release and monitor and troubleshoot performance issues in production. You will work with product management to get direct exposure to the usage patterns we strive to satisfy. This is a technical and hands-on role for someone who is adept at gathering and analyzing performance data and finding the root cause of performance bottlenecks.

What You'll Do

• Define, develop and achieve performance/scalability benchmarks for Veeva products
• Efficiently work with various performance measurement and profiling tools such as Yourkit and JMeter to identify performance and concurrency bottlenecks
• Collaborate with members of the Engineering team to solve performance problems
• Monitor production performance and investigate issues
• Develop tools to automate performance monitoring

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Performance Engineering and Benchmarking
• Proficiency with Java, MySQL, and scripting tools such as Python and Shell scripting
• Extensive hands-on experience with performance engineering, including the use of JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar tools, as well as profiling tools
• Ability to find the root cause of performance bottlenecks with profiling tools
• Expert in distributed computing systems and stack
• Comfortable with Linux, Docker, AWS, GIT, in terms of both tools and systems administration
• We are looking for strong mentors with a proven record of making your team better

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