Staff Engineer - Secure Delivery Platform

Company: Lululemon Athletica
Location: Seattle
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

Business Unit: Store Support Centre (SSC)lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other athletic pursuits. Setting the bar in technical fabrics and functional design, we create transformational products and experiences that support people in moving, growing, connecting, and being well. We owe our success to our innovative product, emphasis on stores, commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we make in every community we're in. As a company, we focus on creating positive change to build a healthier, thriving future. That includes creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused environment for our people.About this team:The lululemon Engineering team is responsible for delivering secure, reliable, and high-performance products to our customers. We embrace Agile, DevSecOps, and SRE practices to accelerate our development processes, enabling a collaborative and supportive work environment.A day in the life:As a Staff Engineer in the Enterprise Engineering group, you will play a critical role in supporting engineering teams globally by enabling CI/CD platforms, monitoring, observability, and metrics adoption, driving enterprise-wide platform utilization.

• Lead the evolution of key platforms, contributing significantly to product roadmaps and technical strategies at the platform level. You will take ownership of the delivery lifecycle for your selected platform, ensuring it evolves according to strategic business objectives.
• Partner with project management, architecture, security, and operations teams to ensure seamless execution and development of products. Facilitate the exchange of information, provide status updates, and collaborate on platform improvements.
• Facilitate an Engineering Community of Practice within your technology space to promote best practices, share knowledge, and enhance the skills of the broader engineering team. Foster an environment of continuous learning and improvement.
• Drive improvements in throughput, quality, cycle time, and DevOps culture across the organization. Ensure that engineering teams have the tools, platforms, and processes they need to excel.
• Mentor and guide team members, helping them grow technically and professionally. Provide clear direction and contribute to project commitments, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
• Continuously evaluate and improve CI/CD and observability systems, staying up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends. Recommend and implement new tools, frameworks, and processes to enhance developer efficiency and system reliability.
• Provide thought leadership in CI/CD systems, cloud technologies, observability platforms, and integration practices. Contribute to the architecture of build systems (e.g., Maven, Gradle), Spring Boot, and Go projects, collaborating with Principal Architects and Software Engineers.
• Identify bottlenecks and constraints within processes, driving innovative solutions that minimize lead times and improve overall system performance. Collaborate on performance tuning, fault tolerance, and load balancing.
• Work effectively with geographically distributed teams, ensuring alignment on priorities and objectives across multiple regions.Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or related roles, with a deep understanding of DevSecOps and/or SRE practices.
  • Proven experience designing and architecting large-scale CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub, GitLab, ArgoCD, or Drone.io.
  • Extensive experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK Stack, or Splunk.
  • Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
  • Proficiency with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm).
  • Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Linux-based systems.
  • Experience with performance tuning, load balancing, and fault tolerance.
  • Experience in creating ephemeral environments for distributed testing of microservices architectures.
  • Expertise in solution architecture, process/system flows, and logical/reference architecture.Must haves:
    • Acknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for your life.
    • Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results.
    • Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same.
    • Lead with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
    • Foster connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
    • Integrate fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn't take yourself too seriously.Compensation and Benefits Package:lululemon's compensation offerings are grounded in a pay-for-performance philosophy that recognizes exceptional individual and team performance. The typical hiring range for this position is from $164,000 - $215,300 USD annually; the base pay offered is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity. As part of our total rewards offering, permanent employees in this position may be eligible for our competitive annual bonus program, subject to program eligibility requirements.At lululemon, investing in our people is a top priority. We believe that when life works, work works. We strive to be the place where inclusive leaders come to develop and enable all to be well. Recognizing our teams for their performance and dedication, other components of our total rewards offerings include support of career development, wellbeing, and personal growth:
      • Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans
      • Paid time off
      • Savings and retirement plan matching
      • Parenthood top-up
      • Extensive catalog of development course offerings
      • People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few)Workplace arrangement:This role is classified as Hybrid under our SSC Workplace Policy:In-person collaboration is important, and much of the role can be performed remotely. Work is performed onsite at least 3 days per week.Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest. lululemon is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. This Equal Employment Opportunity policy applies to all practices relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, discipline, transfer, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment. While management is primarily responsible for seeing that lululemon equal employment opportunity policies are implemented, you share in the responsibility for assuring that, by your personal actions, the policies are effective.lululemon is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you would like someone from our team to contact you for individualized support, email us at . In your email, please include the position title, the location of the position and the nature of your request.
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