Data Engineer - Streaming - Link (Remote)

Spain - Barcelona
Engineering – 773-R&D KOL General /
Full-Time /
Remote
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 Link supports the life sciences industry to connect with key people to improve research and care. It helps professionals to find the right people for e.g. clinical trials, education programs, or advisory boards. This streamlined access helps to reduce the time to market important drugs, conduct trials with the most relevant experts in the respective field and spread information about new treatments to key people in the life science community. You can read more about Veeva Link on our product pages at https://www.veeva.com/products/veeva-link/.
 
The product we build approaches parts of this problem through allocation and aggregation of the publicly available information in GDPR conforming manner, respecting people's privacy. 

As a data engineer with focus on Streaming, you take the responsibility for a major part of the Link data processing platform. We value end-to-end ownership, which puts you into the sweet spot of finding, designing and implementing improvements to the product's data pipeline and adjusting it to changing demands in the market.
 
This includes, but is not limited to implementing, tuning and maintaining streaming data pipelines, based on technologies like Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis at scale in the AWS cloud, to create a large number of high-quality scientific leader’s profiles. Having a large Apache Spark infrastructure in place, you identify spots where streaming is superior to batch processing and prove it. In addition, you will work on algorithms to derive insights from our data set and implement tools to ensure a frictionless delivery of data to our customers all around the globe.

What You'll Do

    • Enhance our data processing pipeline by implementing new algorithms on Apache Spark in Java
    • Prototype and implement new data streaming that transforms pipelines from batch-based to near-real time based for example on technologies like Kafka, Kafka Streams, Spark Structured Streaming, Kinesis
    • Stay up to date with new technologies that could benefit the Veeva Data Link processing platform.

Requirements

    • Expert skills ­in Java and Python
    • Experience with Apache Spark
    • Experience writing software for the cloud (AWS or GCP or Azure)
    • Experience with Kafka, Kafka streams and Kappa architectures
    • Good English oral and written communication skills

Nice to Have

    • Previously worked in agile environments
    • Experience with expert systems

Perks & Benefits

    • Comprehensive benefits package
    • Annual allocations for continuous learning, development & charitable contributions
    • Fitness reimbursement
    • Working from home is possible
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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

As an equal opportunity employer, Veeva is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and growing a diverse workforce. Diversity makes us stronger. It comes in many forms. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, sexual orientation, age, disability and life experience shape us all into unique individuals. We value people for the individuals they are and the contributions they can bring to our teams.

If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at talent_accommodations@veeva.com.