Open Jobs Lead Engineer, Marketing Technology
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
Job ID:289145
Location Name: FSC REMOTE SF/NY/DC -173(USA0173)
Address: FSC Remote CA 94105 United States (US)
Job Type: Full Time
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Information Technology
Work Location: Remote
Belong to Something Beautiful
At Sephora beauty is about feeling seen valued and empowered individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others celebrating diversity and inclusivity unlocking your potential and making a difference every day. Together we belong to something beautiful.
Ready for a career glow up AsLead Engineer Marketing Technology youll be the technical authority driving the architecture and evolution of Sephoras cutting-edge marketing platforms. The work you do will impact beauty as you design and deliver innovative scalable and AI-powered solutions that create seamless personalized client experiences across every digital and physical touchpoint. Youlllead a teamthats united in beauty supported by those who are equally passionate about harnessing the power of technology to transform how our clients discover experience and love beauty.
Technical Leadership.Serve as the technical lead for key Marketing Technology initiatives providing architectural guidance and hands-on expertise across web mobile and in-store platforms.
Full-Stack System Design.Design implement and maintain robust scalable and secure full-stack systems that power marketing campaigns retail media and personalization platforms.
AI-Powered Innovation.Architect and implement AI-powered agentic workflows for software development acceleration and business process automation leveraging modern orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph CrewAI OpenAI Agents SDK and Amazon Bedrock Agents.
Cross-Functional Collaboration.Partner with product managers designers data scientists and business stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into reliable impactful technical solutions.
Engineering Excellence.Champion and enforce engineering best practices coding standards and architectural guidelines across the team rooted in software engineering first principles.
Mentorship & Growth.Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers fostering a culture of innovation learning and accountability including upskilling the team on AI-assisted development practices.
Full-Stack Engineering Expertise.5 years of experience as a full-stack software engineer technical lead or senior engineer building production systems from first principles with strong proficiency in TypeScript Python and/or Java.
Cloud & Microservices Mastery.3 years of experience designing and implementing microservices RESTful/GraphQL APIs and cloud-based distributed systems on AWS GCP or Azure.
AI/ML & Agentic Workflow Experience.2 years of hands-on experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered features and agentic workflows into production applications including familiarity with RAG pipelines vector databases and leading AI model platforms.
MarTech Platform Knowledge.3 years of experience in a MarTech SaaS e-commerce or consumer-facing application environment with hands-on familiarity with platforms such as Google Marketing Platform Braze or Bluecore.
Leadership Track Record.2 years of proven experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives driving architectural decisions under ambiguity and mentoring engineering teams.
AI-Assisted Development Fluency.Demonstrated daily use of AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code GitHub Copilot or Cursor to write refactor debug and accelerate software delivery.
What Youll Get:
The annual base salary range for this position is $160470.00- $198200.00 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 willperform the employed in this position may also be eligible to earn job will be posted for a minimum offivedays.
- CaringCommunity.Youllcollaborate with teammates who are equally passionateabout innovatinganddrivingthe industry forward together united in beauty.
- Fulfilling Path.Your career transformation starts here with opportunities that will challengestretchand develop your skills.
- Meaningful Work.As you make an impact onbeautyyoullfeel and see the positive change (consumer industryandsocial)thatyourindividual voice is a part of.
Rewardsas Uniqueas You:
Some benefits have eligibility requirements and may depend on job classification and length of employment.
- Health.Choose a healthcare plan to fit you and your familys needs withmedicaldental and vision also fully covers our employees disability and life insurance.
- Wealth.We offer a competitive 401k with4%match as well as FSA and HSA programs. We also offer a Student Debt Retirement plan where your student loan paymentsqualifyto earn the 401k match from Sephora.
- Balance.Youll beempoweredto find the perfect blend of work/life balance thatactuallyworks for youwithPTO flexibilityprotectedleave and more.
- Growth.Career growthis built into every role with access to trainingdevelopmentand tuition reimbursement.
- Perks.Thinkyouvetried it all Enjoya30%discount on all merchandise/services opportunities forfreeproductor gratisand flash sale discountsonLVMHbrandproducts.
- Support.Join a team thattruly cares with free mental health and financial coaching resources with 24/7 access to Modern Health and Financial Finesse. Plus volunteer and donation matching.
Sephora values a diverse andinclusiveworkplaceand considers allapplicants withoutregard to sex pregnancy race color national origin gender (including gender identity and gender expression) age religion sexual orientation military/veteran status disability or any other is committed to providing reasonable accommodationtaapplicantswith disabilities or other medical conditions.
Sephora will consider all qualified applicants including those witharrest and conviction recordsin a manner consistent with the requirements of allapplicable laws including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the New York City Fair Chance Act.
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