SEPHORA · 20 hours ago
Lead Engineer, Performance Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
8+ years expSephora is a technology-driven company focused on delivering innovative digital experiences. As the Lead Performance Engineer, you will own the performance strategy for Sephora’s digital platforms, ensuring speed, scalability, and reliability across e-commerce and cloud-native systems while collaborating with various teams to optimize performance.
BeautyCosmeticsE-CommerceRetail
Hiring Manager
Amber Oubre
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
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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