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.

What You'll Do

• 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

Requirements

• 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 …