Sephora Lead Engineer, Performance Engineering

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Location
San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Posted
Dec 13, 2024

About Sephora

Sephora, a leading beauty retailer, is part of the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton conglomerate, renowned for its commitment to luxury and innovation. As an employer, Sephora fosters an environment that values diversity, creativity, and excellence, offering employees opportunities to thrive in a dynamic and inclusive workplace.

Sephora is hiring a Lead Engineer, Performance Engineering in San Francisco, USA. Join a dynamic team within a leading beauty retailer.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Conduct non-functional requirement gathering and assess software application architecture.
  • Formulate and implement a software performance testing strategy.
  • Utilize tools such as Adobe Analytics, Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana Loki for user behavior analysis.
  • Generate test use cases for scripting and create workload models.
  • Establish test schedules, identify dependencies, assess risks, and develop mitigation plans.
  • Specify performance tools, test data, access requirements, and database volume needs.
  • Craft performance test scripts using JMeter and Load Runner.
  • Set up monitoring to collect operating system statistics and application metrics.
  • Execute various performance tests including baseline, load, stress, volume, and failover tests.
  • Monitor application components, servers, and databases during test execution.
  • Analyze key performance metrics through monitoring tools such as Dynatrace and AppDynamics.
  • Conduct production synthetic load testing using Blazemeter.
  • Collaborate with application partners to schedule continuous performance testing as part of the CI/CD pipeline.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems.
  • Six years of progressively responsible post-baccalaureate experience in software testing.

Skills

Proficiency in JMeter and Blazemeter. Experience with Dynatrace and Microsoft Azure Kubernetes. Knowledge of Docker Cloud and Container Platforms. Proficiency in Python and Redis cache performance tuning. Experience with Cosmos DB and Java JVM performance tuning. Familiarity with GCeasy and Jenkins CI/CD Performance automation.

Experience

Six years of progressively responsible post-baccalaureate experience in software testing, including roles such as Test Engineer.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems.

Workplace

The successful candidate will be located in San Francisco, California, USA, with easy access to San Francisco.

Compensation

$166,900 to $193,300 per year depending on experience.

Benefits

Sephora offers a comprehensive benefits package, details of which can be found on the company's career website.

Culture

Sephora is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace culture, where creativity and innovation are encouraged. The company values equal opportunity and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

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