United States Remote (Global) USD 155,070 - 172,300 Yearly

Sephora is hiring a Senior Engineer, SRE

Sephora is looking for a Senior Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering - Digital. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring hyper-stable online experiences for millions of Sephora customers by monitoring, optimizing, and safeguarding the reliability of Sephora's Dotcom platform and OMNI services.

What You'll Do

  • Operate and support the Dotcom and OMNI platform (including BOPIS and Same-Day Delivery), ensuring high availability, resilience, and hyper-stable customer experiences during normal operations and peak traffic events.
  • Triage, diagnose, and resolve L2/L3 production incidents; lead post-incident reviews and partner with engineering teams on permanent corrective actions to eliminate root causes.
  • Build automation solutions, reduce operational toil, and create AI-driven reliability tools and agentic workflows to improve mean time to resolution, productivity, and overall stability.
  • Develop and optimize observability through logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and anomaly detection; refine alerting and telemetry pipelines to proactively identify and resolve issues.
  • Ensure world-class readiness for releases, seasonal events, feature launches, and traffic spikes through resiliency checks, performance validation, and comprehensive change reviews.
  • Maintain and optimize SLO/SLI frameworks; monitor error budgets and partner with application teams on continuous reliability improvements.

What We're Looking For

  • 6+ years of hands-on SRE, DevOps, or Production Engineering experience in high-scale digital applications.
  • Strong understanding of reliability principles and operational excellence.
  • Strong exposure to Azure AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Service Mesh, and API-driven architectures.
  • Operational support experience for React front-end and Spring Boot microservices in production environments.
  • Hands-on experience with observability tools (Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus).
  • Strong scripting abilities (Python, Bash, PowerShell, YAML) to build automation.
  • Proven experience in incident management, root cause analysis, and implementing permanent corrective actions.
  • Experience with SRE principles, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), and cloud platforms (Azure required).
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with clear communication skills under pressure.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with AWS/GCP/OCI cloud platforms.

Technical Stack

  • Azure AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Service Mesh, React, Spring Boot, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Python, Bash, PowerShell, YAML, Jenkins, GitHub Actions

Benefits & Compensation

  • Compensation: $155,070.00 - $172,300.00
  • Healthcare plans including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Fully covered disability and life insurance.
  • Competitive 401k with 4% match.
  • FSA and HSA programs.
  • Student Debt Retirement plan.
  • Paid time off, sick paid time off, and protected leave.
  • Access to development programs, tuition reimbursement, and mentorship.
  • 30% discount on all merchandise/services.
  • Opportunities for free product or 'gratis', and flash sale discounts on LVMH brand products.
  • Free mental health and financial coaching resources with 24/7 access to Modern Health and Financial Finesse.
  • Volunteer and donation matching.

Work Mode

This is a remote position open to candidates in Remote, CA 94105, United States (US).

Sephora values a diverse and inclusive workplace and considers all applicants without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, color, national origin, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, disability, or any other protected category.

Required Skills
Azure AKSKubernetesDockerService MeshReactSpring BootDynatraceSplunkGrafanaPrometheusDevOpsSREProduction EngineeringObservabilityAPI-driven architectures Azure AKSKubernetesDockerService MeshReactSpring BootDynatraceSplunkGrafanaPrometheusDevOpsSREProduction EngineeringObservabilityAPI-driven architectures
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Department Information Technology
Category infrastructure
Posted 3 months ago