Sephora Lead Performance Engineer
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Sephora is seeking a Lead Performance Engineer for a remote position in the United States. This role involves leading performance engineering practices for digital systems, ensuring high-performance and scalable architecture.
Overview
Sephora, a distinguished member of the LVMH family, is a global leader in the beauty retail sector. Renowned for its innovative approach and commitment to excellence, Sephora empowers its teams to redefine the future of beauty. As an employer, Sephora fosters an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated, and creativity is encouraged, ensuring that each team member can thrive and contribute to the company's success.
Role & Responsibilities
- Lead the performance engineering practice for Sephora’s digital systems, ensuring high-performance, high-availability, and scalable architecture.
- Design and execute performance testing strategies including load, stress, spike, and soak testing, as well as capacity planning and bottleneck analysis.
- Integrate Chaos Engineering practices to validate system resilience under failure conditions using tools like Gremlin and Chaos Mesh.
- Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks for performance-related metrics using platforms such as Splunk, AppDynamics, and Dynatrace.
- Collaborate on continuous-delivery pipelines to embed performance checks, automated regression testing, and performance gating.
- Drive root-cause analysis after performance incidents, propose remediations, and ensure preventive engineering.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of significant hands-on responsibility for performance, scalability, and architecture of large, high-traffic systems.
- 8+ years of expertise in ensuring stability, reliability, and performance of mission-critical software applications in production environments.
- 8+ years of experience with monitoring, observability, and performance management tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, and AppDynamics.
- 8+ years of proven track record in performance engineering, log analysis, anomaly detection, and troubleshooting of distributed systems.
- 2+ years of prior experience in a retail, e-commerce, or analogous high-scale environment preferred.
Skills
Experience
8+ years of experience in performance engineering, particularly in high-traffic systems and mission-critical software applications.
Workplace
The successful candidate will be located in Remote, USA. Cerulean currently advertises 2.232 open roles in USA, including 74 added in the last 48 hours.
Compensation
The annual base salary range for this position is $173,610.00 - $192,900.00, with eligibility for bonuses.
Benefits
Sephora offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision plans, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, employee discounts, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, and an employee referral bonus program.
Culture
Sephora is committed to fostering a culture of innovation and inclusivity, where team members are empowered to be their best selves. As part of the LVMH family, Sephora's global reach and impact are significant, with a focus on reimagining the future of beauty. The company values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
About Cerulean
Cerulean is the definitive career portal for the global luxury industry. We match exceptional professionals with exclusive opportunities at the world's most prestigious brands. From haute couture and fine watchmaking to prestige beauty, hospitality, and boutique retail, Cerulean centralises luxury employment to help you find the career for which you were destined.