Engineer II

About lululemon:

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 products, 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. As we continue to elevate our shopping experience, our India Tech Hub plays a key role in expanding our technology capabilities in Product Systems, Merchandising and Planning, Digital Presence, distribution and logistics, and corporate systems. Our team in India works as an extension of the global team on projects of strategic importance.

Engineer II

About this team:

lululemon Engineering is dedicated to building secure, reliable, and performant products for our guests and partners. We embrace the philosophies of Agile, DevOps, and SRE to accelerate our development process and provide the most enjoyable, inclusive, and supportive work environment possible. We believe our journey is more fun when it is collaborative, as we focus on the future instead of the past. As an Engineer, you will work as part of a global team supported by our business and architecture partners to help us collaboratively develop and deliver industry leading technology solutions that drive lululemon's business goals.

Core Responsibilities:

As an Engineer II, you will help form the core of our engineering practice at lululemon by contributing to all areas of development and operations (pre-production to production). You will be supported by a strong engineering group, and established engineering practices. You will be part of a production release team and may perform on-call support functions as needed. Having a DevOps mindset is the key to success in this role, as Engineers are commonly part of full DevOps teams that "own" all parts of software development, release pipelines, production monitoring, security and support.

• Take part in Agile ceremonies
• Perform engineering assignments using existing procedures and best practices
• Conduct research to aid in product troubleshooting and optimization efforts
• Work closely with global teams to ensure deliver effective technical solutions
• Provide an escalation point and participate in on-call support rotations
• Actively monitor key metrics and report on trends
• Participate in our Engineering Community of Practice
• Contribute to engineering automation, management or development of production level systems
• Perform reliability monitoring and support as needed to ensure products meet guest expectations

Qualifications:

• Completed Bachelor's degree or diploma (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Software Architecture preferred; candidates with substantial and relevant industry experience are also eligible
• 7 – 9 years of engineering experience required for Engineer II

Core Kubernetes & EKS Technical Skills:

• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating Amazon EKS clusters – cluster creation, node groups, IAM roles, VPC integration
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals: control plane behavior, networking, pod lifecycle, autoscaling
• Proficiency in Kubernetes deployment workflows using kubectl, Helm, Kustomize
• Deep knowledge of VPC, subnets, routing, and security groups in the context of EKS
• Kubernetes/EKS core add-ons and components: CoreDNS, kube-proxy, VPC CNI, Cluster Autoscaler, HPA/VPA, Karpenter
• EKS-managed services and integrations: IRSA, AWS Secrets Manager, Vault
• Experience with multi-cluster architecture, networking and service mesh tools: Istio, AWS App Mesh
• Custom networking and troubleshooting cluster communication issues
• Experience in executing cluster upgrade strategies
• Experience with Velero for backup and disaster recovery & upgrades

GitOps & Automation:

• GitOps tooling and workflows using: ArgoCD, Flux
• Terraform experience with EKS modules
• CI/CD pipeline development and integration using GitLab

Security & Governance:

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes/EKS security fundamentals: Pod Security Policies / Security Standards, Network Policies, IAM,
  WIZ
• Experience with: OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno
• Secrets management using: Vault (CSI driver or agent injector) or AWS Secrets Manager
• Encryption (KMS), IAM policies, RBAC best practices
• Monitoring, Logging & Observability : Hands-on work Datadog, CloudWatch, CloudWatch Logs Insights, Thanos, Loki
• Tools & Utilities: eksctl, AWS CLI, Terraform, GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with Helm file or similar orchestration tools

Engineering Mindset:

• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across computer, networking, and platform layers
• Strong understanding of cost optimization and right-sizing workloads
• Good documentation hygiene and clear operational runbook creation