Staff Engineer - Global Network Infrastructure

Area: Canada

Stato/Provincia/Città: British Columbia

Città: Vancouver

Unità Affari: Store Support Centre (SSC)

Tipo di tempo: Full-time

Descrizione e requisiti

who we are

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. In particular, that includes creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused environment for our people. 

 

about this team 

The Global Network Engineering team is a world-class delivery group that builds and maintains the 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 a cost-effective global network. This architecture is the core of a multi global network backbone that supports all our application teams. The role will lead the engineering of platforms that enable 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 infrastructure. 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 infrastructure team, dealing with challenging engineering problems and opportunities
  • Influence decisions that impact critical long term Technology strategy for organizational success
  • Provide thought leadership in the global networking domain to ensure that systems and services are designed and operating to achieve optimal levels of performance, reliability, security, and sustainability
  • Technical delivery and ownership of network design and engineering solutions
  • Responsible for providing solutions that support multiple teams across the organization
  • Contribute to the development of new network 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 coach team members 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, and mentors others on these practices
  • Provides leadership and subject matter expertise to identify solutions for network security gaps and challenges

 

qualifications 

  • 10+ years of progressive experience in network engineering, with demonstrated expertise across a variety of network disciplines and technology best practices
  • Proven ability to design, engineer, and build highly available, resilient, and scalable on-premises, cloud, and hybrid networks using industry best practices and modern architectures
  • Advanced knowledge of enterprise routing/switching, SD-WAN, wireless, network security, and cloud networking platforms (AWS, Azure,Aviatrix), including VPC/VNet design and best practices
  • Strong understanding of network security frameworks and tools (e.g., Palo Alto, Zscaler), including segmentation, VPNs, and zero-trust principles
  • Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (SolarWinds, Splunk, Datadog) for performance optimization
  • Ability to explain technical solutions to a non-technical audience and translate business requirements to technical solutions


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. 

 

additional notes
Authorization to work in Canada is required for this role.

 

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 $148,000 - $194,000 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 
  • 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.

 
workplace arrangement

Hybrid 

In-person collaboration and connection is important to our culture. Work is performed onsite, minimum 4 days per week.

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Candidati ora

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.

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