Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. 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.

As Principal Software

Engineer for a new product within Veeva, you will be a founding member of a team building our next major AI-driven platform — one that will transform how Life Sciences companies manage safety, regulatory, and clinical development. You will influence and help grow a codebase and engineering organization from the ground up, wearing multiple hats across the engineering organization. The team will be AI-first in two meaningful ways: using AI to drive engineering productivity and strong engineering discipline, and building a product that applies AI in genuinely creative ways to problems that matter.

Within your first year, you will have live customers on the platform and a thriving, growing team behind it - directly accelerating how customers bring life-saving products to market.

Full Feature Ownership: Own all stages of feature implementation, from design and development through deployment, production support, and maintenance. Daily code contribution using AI assistance for productivity Drive Solutions: Collaborate with Product Management and Development on technical design and problem-solving to deliver great code Define, promote,



and mentor on engineering best practices and coding standards, including the latest approaches to AI assisted engineering Strategic Mentorship: Develop the skills of engineering talent through structured mentorship Seasoned Software Engineer: 12+ years of proven software development expertise (Production level Python development required) Scalability Expert: Proven track record of architecting and building high-volume products at scale Hands-on development experience with current open-source tools and technologies, including Python, Git, FastAPI, Pydantic Highly driven and flexible, enjoys a fast-paced start-up environment, and believes in having fun along the way Mentorship: Proven ability to mentor and elevate team performance, fostering growth and excellence Excellent verbal and written English communication skills: Engineering is not all about the code, it’s also about communication Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance ~ PTO and company-paid holidays ~ Retirement programs ~Base pay: $180,000 - $275,000 CAD The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. 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.

📌 Principal Software Engineer - Python (Toronto)
🏢 Veeva Systems
📍 Toronto