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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.\nabout this team\nOur team builds and evolves the technology that powers lululemon's digital commerce experiences, helping guests discover products, find relevant content, and move seamlessly from inspiration to purchase. We work across a highly interconnected ecosystem that includes product catalog and product publishing, search and recommendations, content publishing and CMS, digital merchandising, APIs, and other foundational commerce capabilities.\nWe are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who can operate across this ecosystem and help shape the technical direction of our digital experiences. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in one or more areas such as e-commerce catalog, product information and publishing, search and recommendations, content management/CMS, or related digital commerce platforms, combined with the ability to understand and influence systems beyond their immediate domain.\nThis role will work across multiple engineering teams and partner closely with Product, Architecture, SRE, Data, Security, and other technology organizations to solve complex technical problems, establish scalable engineering patterns, and improve the reliability, performance, and agility of our digital commerce platform.\ncore responsibilities\nAs a Staff Software Engineer, you will serve as a technical multiplier across multiple engineering teams, designing and delivering enterprise software solutions and technical frameworks that scale across lululemon's digital ecosystem. You will provide hands-on technical leadership for complex, cross-functional initiatives while helping establish engineering standards, architectural patterns, and operational practices adopted across teams.\nSelect responsibilities include:\nDesign and implement scalable enterprise software solutions, services, APIs, and technical frameworks spanning multiple teams and digital commerce domains.\nProvide technical leadership across one or more areas including product catalog, product information/product publishing, search, recommendations, content publishing, CMS, digital merchandising, or related e-commerce capabilities.\nDrive complex, multi-team technical initiatives with minimal supervision, making key technical decisions independently while navigating ambiguity, dependencies, and competing priorities.\nDefine and promote architectural patterns that enable reliable integration across catalog, product publishing, search, recommendation, CMS, commerce, and other digital platforms.\nWrite exemplary production code in critical areas when deep technical expertise or hands-on engineering leadership is required.\nLead technical discovery and design for complex business problems, translating ambiguous requirements into simple, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions.\nPartner with Principal Engineers, Enterprise Architects, Product Managers, and other technical leaders to evaluate architectural options, implementation approaches, scalability, reliability, security, and operational implications.\nLead technical design reviews across multiple engineering teams, providing expert guidance on architecture, implementation, scalability, maintainability, and long-term technical health.\nEstablish engineering standards and reusable patterns across teams, including API design, integration patterns, testing strategies, observability, deployment practices, and operational readiness.\nDesign systems capable of supporting high-volume digital commerce traffic, peak-season demand, and rapid changes in product and content availability.\nIdentify and address systemic performance, reliability, scalability, and resiliency challenges across interconnected commerce systems.\nChampion engineering practices that improve system observability and operational excellence, including meaningful SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, alerting, incident readiness, and production diagnostics.\nMentor engineers at all levels and actively develop emerging technical leaders through technical guidance, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.\nInfluence technical strategy beyond a single team or product area and help establish a consistent engineering culture across the organization.\nqualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience; Master's degree preferred.\n9-12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience providing technical leadership across multiple teams or large-scale systems.\nDeep experience designing and implementing distributed, highly scalable systems and enterprise APIs using modern software engineering practices.\nStrong experience in d igital commerce/e-commerce, with deep expertise in one or more of the following areas:Product catalog and product information management\nProduct publishing and product lifecycle systems\nSearch and discovery\nRecommendations and personalization\nContent publishing and Content Management Systems (CMS)\nDigital merchandising or related commerce platforms\n\nExperience designing integrations and data flows between commerce platforms such as catalog, product publishing, search, recommendations, CMS/content platforms, inventory, pricing, or other downstream digital experiences.\nProven ability to understand complex, interconnected systems and identify architectural improvements that span multiple products, services, and engineering teams.\nExperience designing APIs, event-driven architectures, microservices, distributed systems, and highly available cloud-based applications.\nExperience building systems that support high-volume traffic, seasonal/peak demand, and business-critical digital customer experiences.\nProven ability to decompose highly ambiguous technical challenges into effective, non-over-engineered solutions and clearly articulate technical trade-offs.\nStrong understanding of modern software development practices, automated testing, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and production operations.\nDemonstrated ability to establish and articulate technical strategy across an organization in alignment with business objectives and strategic initiatives.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across engineering, product, architecture, and business stakeholders.\nExperience mentoring engineers and developing technical talent, including the ability to influence without direct authority.\nmust haves\nAcknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for your life.\nPossess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results. \nCommunicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same. \nLead with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure. \nFoster connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships. \nIntegrate fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take yourself too seriously. \nadditional notes\nAuthorization to work in the United States is required for this role.\nPlease note: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visa at this time for this role.\ncompensation and benefits package\nlululemon’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 $177,500 - 233,000 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.\nAt 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:\nExtended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans \nPaid time off \nSavings and retirement plan matching \nGenerous employee discount \nFitness & yoga classes \nParenthood top-up \nExtensive catalog of development course offerings \nPeople networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few) \nNote: 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.\n\nworkplace arrangement\nHybrid\nIn-person collaboration and connection isimportant to our culture. 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