SEPHORA · 1 month ago
Lead Engineer, Performance Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$174K/yr - $193K/yr
8+ years expSephora is a beauty company that values diversity and inclusivity, and they are seeking a Lead Performance Engineer to own the performance strategy for their digital platforms. This role involves ensuring speed, scalability, and reliability across e-commerce and cloud-native systems while collaborating with various teams to enhance performance and resilience.
BeautyCosmeticsE-CommerceRetail
Responsibilities
Lead the performance engineering practice for Sephora’s 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; leverage Gremlin, 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
Qualification
Required
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
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
Preferred
2+ years prior experience in a retail, e-commerce or analogous high-scale environment preferred
Benefits
Health. Choose a healthcare plan to fit you and your dependents' needs with medical, dental, and vision coverage. Sephora also fully covers our employees’ disability and life insurance.
Wealth. We offer a competitive 401k with 4% match as well as FSA and HSA programs. We also offer a Student Debt Retirement plan, where your student loan payments qualify to earn the 401k match from Sephora.
Balance. Leading a store is exciting and dynamic, so we make sure you can recharge with vacation paid time off, sick paid time off, and protected leave.
Growth. No two stores or leaders are the same. With access to training, tuition reimbursement, and leadership development, you’ll be guided on a dynamic career path.
Perks. Think you’ve tried it all? Enjoy a 30% discount on all merchandise/services, opportunities for free product or “gratis,” and flash sale discounts on LVMH brand products.
Support. You don’t just lead a team that cares – you’re part of a team that cares. Tap into free mental health and financial coaching resources with 24/7 access to Modern Health and Financial Finesse. Plus, volunteer and donation matching.
Company
SEPHORA
Sephora is an online shopping site that offers a range of beauty products such as cosmetics and skincare items.
10001+ employees
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