Principal Engineer, Global Networks & Infrastructure

Principal Engineer, Global Networks & Infrastructure 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.

lululemon Engineering is dedicated to building secure, reliable, and performant products for our guests and partners. We embrace the philosophies of Agile, Dev Ops, 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.

• Create and document the philosophies and best practices for global networks, devices, compute, and core infrastructure services. Continuously position the engineering team to use modern infrastructure platform technologies methods and tools
• Partner with Principal Engineers and Architects, Technology Directors and Divisional Executives to define and describe our future state engineering vision and maturity roadmap
• Lead a Community of Practice and associated education efforts for the infrastructure engineering pillar
• Research and summarize industry trends and practices; present recommendations based on findings when relevant
• Ensure relevant engineering standards are created and maintained to support the maturity and reliability of our business systems. Actively promote adoption of policies, standards, guidelines for infrastructure engineering and delivery.
• Work with key stakeholders to establish roadmap of initiatives to streamline and reduce complexity of current infrastructure and to advance infrastructure capabilities to meet future state needs.
• Lead cross-functional intake: assess, triage and guide infrastructure and cross-functional teams on architectural options and decisions
• Design the organization's enterprise infrastructure framework. Develop reference architecture that others will follow to create and improve infrastructure systems.
• Create and maintain technical capability maps for each area of the infrastructure and map them to business capabilities
• Provide architecture and engineering delivery guidance and support for infrastructure solutions, ensuring quality and fit to reliability, scalability, resilience, security and cost.
• Act as solution design lead for large, complex or mission critical projects and initiatives that require cross-team collaboration spanning an entire Director+ level organization
• Take ownership of infrastructure designs that span multiple people's work, breaking work into smaller tasks for Architects and Engineers. Ensure architecture & engineering artifacts and diagrams are documented with quality and simplicity, easily conveying everything needed to build and operate these designs.
• Undertake impact analysis and design modifications to existing infrastructure to support new solutions & conduct proof of concept activities with key business users in support of use cases.
• Collaborate with engineers across technology teams to interpret architectural designs and support engineering development of critical business applications and tools necessary to fully operationalize these systems (e.g. Observability platforms)
• Research new technologies to determine which ones should be incorporated into the organization’s infrastructure architectures by understanding technology product and vendor strategies and roadmaps &…