Remote Principal Software Engineer, Search - Lucene

Summary

Join Veeva Systems, 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.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software development experience with proven track record of building high volume products at scale
• In-depth knowledge of Solr (or) Elasticsearch and deeper understanding of Lucene and familiarity with its source code. Experience in forking, customizing and contributing to open-source projects is good to have
• Proven track record of building and optimizing high-performance distributed systems with strong understanding of database ACID properties and experience with relational or non-relational databases
• Extensive experience developing enterprise SaaS cloud applications
• Hands-on development experience on Java, Spring, Hibernate, Git, Maven or Gradle, Git, jenkins
• Drive and flexibility to roll up your sleeves and work hard (and have fun) in a dynamic startup environment
• We are looking for strong mentors with a proven record of making your team better

Responsibilities

• Work with the senior architects and engineers to design and augment our storage engine to build transactional capabilities
• Solve very complex and challenging problems around consistency, transaction, isolation and performance at scale
• You will own every aspect of your feature from design to implementation and take the feature all the way to production and see it through
• Collaborate with product managers and the quality assurance team to deliver high quality product features by adhering to Veeva's development process and standards
• Passionate to mentor and guide engineers at all levels, review work products of other engineers in the team and evangelize the best practices and coding standards

Benefits

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