[Remote] Principal DevOps Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will be a founding member of a team building an AI-driven platform to transform how Life Sciences companies manage safety, regulatory, and clinical development.

Responsibilities

• Provide in-depth software engineering expertise in cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming
• Implement core DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC), continuous integration, and automated deployments
• Build and manage robust CI/CD workflows to automate full-lifecycle tasks and elevate developer productivity
• Provision, manage, and scale infrastructure using Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes
• Drive architectural design, integration solutions, and engineering best practices across the organization
• Proactively improve system reliability, availability, performance, and durability to minimize operational risk

Skills

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps roles, emphasizing tooling, automation, and distributed systems
• Proven track record as a strong mentor dedicated to developing team capabilities
• Extensive experience designing and programming applications in AWS
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration tools (Ansible, Terraform)
• Deep expertise with containerization, serverless architectures, and orchestrators (Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• Proficient in Python, as well as statically typed languages like Java, Scala, or Go
• Hands-on experience setting up and managing CI pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, Codefresh)
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability frameworks to track system health and performance
• Strong technical writing and presentation skills, with experience in proposals, estimation, and documentation
• Experience with SQL, data modeling, and design

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
• Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
• Retirement programs
• 1% charitable giving program
• Work from home or in the office

Company Overview

Veeva delivers the industry cloud for life sciences with software, AI, data, and business consulting. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.veeva.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Veeva Systems has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 27 in 2026, 100 in 2025, 56 in 2024, 50 in 2023, 73 in 2022, 55 in 2021, 38 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.