Staff Engineer- Network Automation

The Global Network Automation team is a world-class delivery group that builds andmaintainsthe underpinnings of lululemon's technology environment. We are a product and platform team that share a passion for continuous high-quality delivery and work closely with our internal teams and our business partners. With these business and technology partners we co-create a powerful roadmap to deliver amazing experiences to our guests with innovation, value, and reliability.

a day in the life

This Staff Engineer will define the architecture and influence the solution and business strategy to build cost-effective global network automation. This architecture is the core of a multi global network backbone that supports all our application teams. The role will lead the engineering of platform automation that enables high scale internal teams to securely use the high performance and scalable lululemon Global network.

As a Staff Engineer, you will work as a technical engineering leader for the lululemon Global network automation team. You will be counted on as a leader in your technology space as you contribute to all areas of design and engineering (pre-production to production). You will spend a fair amount of time planning the evolution of the tools and systems in network

infrastructure, guiding your team's roadmap year to year, and leading and enrolling others. You will contribute heavily to our Engineering principles by maintaining the practical "how we do it" documentation, and by partnering with fellow network engineers, Senior Leadership and Principal Engineers & Architects to lead a Community of Practice aimed at increasing Engineer training and development for your technology area. Staff Engineers work to elevate our engineering community by designing/introducing tools and systems that accelerate and support our engineering best practices.

• Serve as a lead engineering resource on the global network automation team, dealing with challenging engineering problems and opportunities
• Influence decisions thatimpactcritical long term Technology strategy for organizational success
• Serve as the subject matter expert for network automation and reliability engineering.
• Design and build advanced automation solutions for network configuration and management.
• Provide thought leadership in the global network automation domain to ensure that systems and services are designed andoperatingto achieveoptimallevels of performance, reliability, security, and sustainability
• Technical delivery and ownershipof network automation design and engineering solutions
• Responsible for providing solutions that support multiple teams across the organization
• Contribute to the development of new network automation engineering principles and concepts
• Lead various efforts by engaging and coordinating work with other Network Engineers and Architects, as well as providing updates to Leadership and other teams
• Demonstrates ability to collaborate withmembers around best practices for delivering highly performant and scalable solutions for the global network
• Ensures security practices and/or security system fundamentals are defined and shared across multiple teams, andmentorsothers on these practices
• Provides leadership and subject matterexpertisetoidentifysolutions for network security automation gaps and challenges

Qualifications

Platform Ownership & Strategy

• Define and evolve the Network Engineering & Automation platform roadmap in partnership with senior leadership.
• Lead architecture reviews and ensure alignment with enterprise engineering standards.
• Research emerging technologies and guide adoption to achieve future-state goals.

Technical Leadership

• Serve as the subject matter expert for network engineering & automation and reliability engineering.
• Mentor engineers and lead a Community of Practice focused on platform standards.
• Establish and maintain engineering guides and best practices for the domain.

DevOps & Reliability

• Own platform reliability, security, and quality processes.
• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines, observability, and automated testing.
• Set and monitor SLOs, surfacing metrics to ensure operational excellence.

• Networking Expertise: Deep understanding of routing, switching, network protocols, and large-scale network architecture.
• Software Engineering: Expert-level Python development skills; experience building modular, maintainable systems.
• Cloud Architecture: Advanced knowledge of AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, etc.).
• DevOps/SRE: Proven experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and reliability engineering.
• Leadership: Ability to influence cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and drive strategic initiatives.
• Communication: Strong ability to articulate technical concepts to diverse audiences., * Experience leading platform-level initiatives and setting engineering standards.
• Familiarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS) and serverless architectures.
• Background in network automation frameworks and APIs.
• Passion for continuous learning and driving innovation.

lululemon's compensation offerings are grounded in a pay-for-performance philosophy that recognizes exceptional individual and teamperformance. Thetypical hiring range for this position is from$164,000 - $210,000annually; 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
• Generous employee discount
• Fitness & yoga classes
• Parenthood top-up
• Extensive catalog of development course offerings
• People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few)

Note: The incentive programs, benefits, and perks have certain eligibility requirements. The Company reserves the right to alter these incentive programs, benefits, and perks in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.

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 communitywe'rein. As a company, we focus on creating positive change to build a healthier, thriving future.In particular, thatincludes creatingan equitable,inclusiveand growth-focused environment for our people.