Lead Engineer, IT Services

Job ID: 299335 Location Name: FSC REMOTE SF/NY/DC -173(USA_0173) Address: FSC, Remote, Remote REMOTE, United States (US) Job Type: Full Time Position Type: Regular Job Function: Information Technology Work Location: Remote

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Belong to Something Beautiful

At Sephora, beauty is about feeling seen, valued, and empowered, individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, unlocking your potential, and making a difference every day. Together, we belong to something beautiful.

Your Role at Sephora:

Ready for a career glow up? As a Lead Engineer, IT Services Engineering, you’ll independently turn complex and ambiguous problems into secure, scalable, reliable, and supportable production solutions. The work you do will impact beauty, as you modernize IT service delivery by combining platform-native capabilities, deterministic automation, custom engineering, and production AI agents. You’ll be part of a team that’s united in beauty, supported by those who are equally passionate about architecting, building, and operating the technology that powers how Sephora teams work.

What You’ll Do:

• Platform & Solution Architecture: Architect, design, build, integrate, and deliver enterprise platforms, custom applications, workflow solutions, APIs, automation, and production AI agents while choosing the simplest supportable solution.
• Production Code & AI Delivery: Write and maintain production-ready code, configurations, integrations, agent workflows, tests, and deployment artifacts, establishing reusable context and quality gates for AI-enabled delivery.
• Operational Excellence: Own the production behavior, operational readiness, observability, reliability, and incident response of platforms and AI-enabled solutions across the team's domain.
• Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on technical leadership without direct people-management responsibility, leading design and code reviews, mentoring engineers, and guiding technical and non-technical stakeholders from ambiguous needs to clear decisions.

What You’ll Bring:

• Software Engineering Experience: 8+ years of experience in software engineering with strong fundamentals in system design, architecture, code quality, testing, security, and production support.
• Enterprise Architecture: 5+ years of experience architecting, building, integrating, deploying, and operating enterprise applications, platforms, APIs, or workflow solutions.
• Programming Expertise: 5+ years of experience with Python and one or more additional programming or scripting languages.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: 3+ years of experience with cloud platforms, databases, APIs, CI/CD, version control, automated testing, and observability.
• AI-Native Engineering: 2+ years of hands-on experience using AI agents throughout software delivery, including design, coding, testing, review, documentation, debugging, and incident response.
• Agentic Solutions: 2+ years of hands-on experience building or integrating production AI agents, agentic workflows, or LLM-powered applications.

What You’ll Get:

The annual base salary range for this position is $160,000.00 - $179,000.00 The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the applicant’s qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the job. Individuals employed in this position may also be eligible to earn bonuses. This job will be posted for a minimum of five days.

• Caring Community. You’ll collaborate with teammates who are equally passionate about innovating and driving the industry forward – together, united in beauty.
• Fulfilling Path. Your career transformation starts here, with opportunities that will challenge, stretch and develop your skills.
• Meaningful Work. As you make an impact on beauty, you’ll feel and see the positive change (consumer, industry, and social) that your individual voice is a part of.

Rewards as Unique as You:

Some benefits have eligibility requirements and may depend on job classification and length of employment.

• Health. Choose a healthcare plan to fit you and your family’s needs with medical, dental, and vision coverage. Sephora also fully covers our employees’ disability and life insurance.
• Wealth. We offer a competitive 401k with 4% match as well as FSA and HSA programs. We also offer a Student Debt Retirement plan, where your student loan payments qualify to earn the 401k match from Sephora.
• Balance. You’ll be empowered to find the perfect blend of work/life balance that actually works for you with PTO, flexibility, protected leave, and more.
• Growth. Career growth is built into every role, with access to training, development, and tuition reimbursement.
• Perks. Think you’ve tried it all? Enjoy a 30% discount on all merchandise/services, opportunities for free product or “gratis,” and flash sale discounts on LVMH brand products.
• Support. Join a team that truly cares – with free mental health and financial coaching resources with 24/7 access to Modern Health and Financial Finesse. Plus, volunteer and donation matching.

Sephora values a diverse and inclusive workplace and considers all applicants without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, color, national origin, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), age, religion, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, disability, or any other protected category. Sephora is committed to providing reasonable accommodation ta applicants with disabilities or other medical conditions.

Sephora will consider all qualified applicants, including those with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.

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