Lead Engineer, Integrations

Job ID: 282459
Location Name: CA-FSC SF Off (0174)
Address: 350 Mission St, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States (US)
Job Type: Full Time
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Information Technology
Work Location: Hybrid Schedule-San Francisco

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 Lead Engineer, Integrations, you'll be leading the design and delivery of seamless integrations between internal applications and external partner systems that power Sephora's technology ecosystem. The work you do will impact beauty, as you enable critical business functions through innovative integration solutions that connect our digital platforms. You'll lead a team that's united in beauty, supported by those who are equally passionate about building scalable, secure, and high-performing technology solutions.

What You'll Do:

• Lead End-to-End Integration Delivery. Oversee the complete lifecycle of integration components, collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams, product management, IT security, network operations, DevOps, and external partners to deliver solutions that meet business requirements.

• Design and Develop Integration Solutions. Provide hands-on development and code reviews while designing integrations using Apigee and Apache Kafka, ensuring optimal performance, security, and maintainability.

• Own Solution Quality and Stability. Take ownership of integration solutions delivered by your team, including code quality, production releases, ongoing maintenance, and future support.

• Drive Platform Excellence. Collaborate with enterprise engineering leads to continuously improve integration platforms, implementing best practices for API governance, event-driven architectures, and platform operations.

• Lead and Mentor Your Team. Coach and support a team of integration developers (onsite and offshore), fostering their growth while ensuring delivery excellence across multiple projects.

• Bridge Business and Technology. Attend requirement discussions to provide technology expertise, define achievable integration requirements, and establish data mappings that align with project goals.

What You'll Bring:

• Deep Integration Expertise. 8+ years of overall experience in enterprise integration and distributed systems using middleware, with 3+ years of strong hands-on experience in Apigee (API proxy development, policies, security, analytics) and Apache Kafka (topic design, consumer groups, schema registry, performance tuning).

• Platform Operations Experience. Proven experience in Apigee and Kafka platform operations, including environment maintenance, version upgrades, patch management, capacity planning, performance tuning, and cluster scaling.

• Security and Architecture Knowledge. Experience implementing API security (OAuth2, JWT, threat protection) and designing event-driven architectures, along with understanding of integration patterns like MFT, pub/sub, streaming, ETL, and APIs.

• Technical Development Skills. Ability to code custom functions in Java, Spring Boot, or JavaScript, with experience setting up CI/CD pipelines for API and Kafka deployments and working with message formats like XML, JSON, and Flat File.

• Leadership and Collaboration. Prior experience leading small teams of developers from offshore locations with excellent analytical thinking, troubleshooting abilities, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced Agile/SCRUM environment.

• Education and Communication. BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent (MS preferred), with excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to interact with organizational leaders and management stakeholders.

What You’ll Get:

The annual base salary range for this position is $178,380.00 - $182,000.00 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. 

Join Us and Belong to Something Beautiful