Remote Architect - Infrastructure

Location: New Westminster

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’s Vault Platform enables rapid development of enterprise applications for our Life Sciences customers. Vault applications, which are built on the Vault platform, enable our customers to run and manage clinical trials, ensure compliance with regulations, safely manufacture and produce life‑saving medicines, and more. The Cloud Infrastructure team is responsible for utilizing a diverse set of cloud and open‑source technologies to deliver a massively scalable, robust, and highly available platform.

We are seeking an Architect who is passionate about designing and implementing a highly available, distributed, and secure system on a cloud platform. The work you do will provide immutability across the application and storage layers, including building replication and the containerization of backend services.

You will be responsible for utilizing diverse cloud and open‑source technologies to deliver a massively scalable, robust, highly available, and immutable platform that powers all the applications built on Veeva Vault.

What You’ll Do

Collaborate with Product Management and Development team members on technical design and problem‑solving to come up with compelling solutions to complex problems

Optimize and improve existing infrastructure, architecture, and processes to take advantage of cloud platforms

Own all aspects of implementation for features from design to development, deployment to production, to support and maintenance

Design and build systems that are scalable, highly available, and easily maintainable

Build multi‑tenant RESTful services at scale

Requirements

Hands‑on programming experience with many AWS APIs and technologies: EC2, IAM, Route 53, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, Elastic Container Service, S3, EBS, VPC, Security Groups, EKS

12+ years of commercial software development in an Object Oriented Language (e.g. Java, C#, Go)

Current hands‑on development experience with open‑source technologies:
Spring, Maven, Git, Jenkins, JUnit, Tomcat, Linux

Experience with scripting such as Linux Shell, Python

Experience with Immutable Infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code patterns and technologies:
Docker, Ansible, Packer, Vagrant, AWS SDK for Java

Strong verbal and communication skills

We are looking for strong mentors with a proven record of making your team better

Nice to Have

Experience with building enterprise software for business

Familiarity with agile methodologies

Learn More

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Perks & Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance

PTO and company‑paid holidays

Retirement programs

1% charitable giving program

Compensation

Base pay: $200,000 – $300,000

The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range…