Open Jobs Lead Engineer, Performance Engineering

Job ID:278397
Store Name/Number:FSC REMOTE SF/NY/DC -173(USA0173)
Address:FSC Remote CA 94105 United States (US)
Hourly/Salaried:Salaried (Exempt)
Job Type:Full Time
Position Type:Regular

Job Function:Information Technology

Company Overview:

At Sephora we inspire our customers empower our teams and help them become the best versions of themselves. We create an environment where people are valued and differences are celebrated. Every day our teams across the world bring to life our purpose: to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the Extra Ordinary in each of us. We are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

Technology

At Sephora our technology team works fast and smart. With San Francisco as our home we take bringing new tech to market seriously developing the latest in mobile technologies scalable architecture and the coolest in-store client experience. We love what we do and we have fun doing it. The Technology group is comprised of motivated self-starters and true team players that are integral to the growth of Sephora and our future success. Our Performance Engineering team ensures fast reliable and scalable digital experiences across mobile apps and web platforms. Operating at the intersection of software engineering infrastructure and observability we focus on detecting and eliminating performance bottlenecks optimizing efficiency and enhancing end-user experience. From load and resiliency testing to capacity planning and real-user monitoring we leverage automation analytics and modern cloud technologies to build resilient future-ready systems. If youre passionate about performance scalability and innovation youll find a great fit within our team.

Your role at Sephora...

At Sephora as the Lead Performance Engineer you will own the end-to-end performance strategy for Sephoras digital platforms ensuring speed scalability and reliability across e-commerce APIs and cloud-native systems. Youll define benchmarks and KPIs build automation frameworks execute large-scale load and resiliency tests and drive continuous optimization. This role requires close collaboration with Development SRE DevOps Cloud and Architecture teams to embed performance and resilience into every layer of our technology stack. If youre passionate about solving complex scalability challenges and building systems that perform flawlessly under any condition this is the role for you.

Responsibilties:

• Lead the performance engineering practice for Sephoras digital systems (e.g. e-commerce platform microservices APIs) ensuring high-performance high-availability and scalable architecture.
• Design and execute performance testing strategies: load testing stress testing spike testing soak testing capacity planning bottleneck analysis.
• Integrate Chaos Engineering practices to validate system resilience under failure conditions; leverageGremlin Chaos Mesh or similar tools to simulate real-world failure scenarios and ensure systems can self-recover and degrade gracefully.
• Build and maintain monitoring logging and alerting frameworks for performance-related metrics (both real-time and post-mortem analysis) using tools/platforms such as Splunk AppDynamics Dynatrace.
• Collaborate on continuous-delivery pipelines (CI/CD) to embed performance checks automated regression testing and performance gating.
• Drive root-cause analysis after performance incidents or degradations propose remediations and ensure preventive engineering.

Were excited about you if you have:

• 8 years significant hands-on responsibility for performance scalability and architecture of large high-traffic systems (e-commerce or equivalent)
• 8 years expertise in ensuring and overseeing stability reliability and performance of mission-critical software applications in production environments.
• 8 years experience with monitoring observability and performance management tools such as Splunk Dynatrace Datadog AppDynamics or equivalent enterprise platforms.
• 8 years proven track record in performance engineering log analysis anomaly detection and troubleshooting of distributed systems.
• 2 years prior experience in a retail e-commerce or analogous high-scale environment preferred.
• Performance Testing & Monitoring: Expertise in JMeter BlazeMeter LoadRunner Gatling and APM tools like Dynatrace AppDynamics or New Relic.
• Technical & Cloud Expertise: Strong programming/scripting (Java Python Groovy) experience with microservices APIs Docker/Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Analytical & Problem-Solving: Ability to identify bottlenecks optimize system
• Leadership & Collaboration: Lead teams mentor engineers and work closely with DevOps SRE

The annual base salary range for this position is $173610.00 - $192900.00 The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors which may include as applicable the applicants qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the job. Individuals employed in this position may also be eligible to earn bonuses. Sephora offers a generous benefits package to full-time employees which includes comprehensive health dental and vision plans; a superior 401(k) plan various paid time off programs; employee discount/perks; life insurance; disability insurance; flexible spending accounts; and an employee referral bonus program.

While at Sephora youll enjoy

• The people. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented leaders and teams people you can be proud to work with.
• The learning. We invest in training and developing our teams and you will continue evolving and building your skills through personalized career plans.
• The culture. As a leading beauty retailer within the LVMH family our reach is broad and our impact is global. It is in our DNA to innovate and at Sephora all 40000 passionate team members across 35 markets and 3000 stores are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

You can unleash your creativity because weve got disruptive spirit. You can learn and evolve because we empower you to be your best. You can be yourself because you are what sets us apart. This is the future of beauty. Reimagine your future at Sephora.

Sephora is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company.We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin ancestry citizenship gender gender identity sexual orientation age marital status military/veteran status or disability status. Sephora is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

Sephora will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.