Staff Engineer - Digital Services

lululemon; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 202,000 - 266,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading performance apparel company is seeking a Staff Engineer, Digital Services, to provide technical leadership across innovative projects. This role involves defining scalable systems, leading design reviews, and collaborating with teams to enhance digital commerce experiences. Applicants should have significant software engineering expertise, particularly in backend services and cloud-native applications, and a passion for delivering high-quality solutions. The position offers competitive compensation and a hybrid work arrangement.

Benefits

Extended health and dental benefits

Paid time off

Savings and retirement plan matching

Generous employee discount

Fitness and yoga classes

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience in retail or eCommerce platforms.
• Deep understanding of scalability and reliability engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction for the Digital Services organization.
• Define service-oriented and API-first architectures.
• Drive system design reviews and architectural governance.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Backend services and APIs

System design and performance optimization

Cloud-native environment

Ability to translate complex business problems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Java

Node.js

Python

Job description

Description & Requirements

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.

who we are

We are seeking a Staff Engineer, Digital Services to provide deep technical leadership across our Digital Services organization, powering Content, Search, Catalog, Recommendations, Product Detail Pages (PDP), and SEO platforms and APIs. This role is highly influential and hands‑on, responsible for shaping scalable, resilient, and high‑performance systems that enable best‑in‑class digital commerce and discovery experiences.

core responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer, you will work as the technical leader for the platform(s) your team delivers. You will be counted on as a leader in your technology space as you contribute to all areas of development and operations (pre‑production to production). You will spend a fair amount of time planning the evolution of the tools and systems that make up your platform, guiding your team's roadmap year to year. You will contribute heavily to our Engineering principles by maintaining the practical "how we do it" documentation, and by partnering with Senior Leadership and Principal Engineers to lead a Community of Practice aimed at increasing Engineer training and development for your technology stack. Staff Engineers work to elevate our engineering community by designing/introducing tools and systems that accelerate and support our engineering best practices.

• Define and evolve service-oriented and API-first architectures with a focus on scalability, reliability, low latency, and extensibility.


• Drive system design reviews, architectural governance, and technical decision-making across multiple teams.


• Lead the design of content, catalog publishing, and merchandising platforms, enabling rapid, accurate, and scalable product launches across regions and channels.


• Architect end-to-end catalog publishing pipelines, including ingestion, enrichment, validation, transformation, and distribution to downstream consumers (Search, Category, PDP, SEO, and external partners).


• Drive the design of workflow-driven publishing capabilities, including approvals, role-based access control, preview environments, scheduling, rollback, and auditability.


• Partner closely with Product Managers, UX, Data, to translate business needs into robust technical solutions.


• Facilitate an Engineering Community of Practice for your platform


• Contribute to engineering automation, management or development of production level systems


• Owns select platform


• Collaborates with Architecture, Security and Operations throughout product development life cycle

qualifications

• software engineering experience, including designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.


• Strong hands-on experience building and operating backend services and APIs in a cloud-native environment.


• Proven experience with Search, Browse, Category, PDP, or SEO-related platforms in a retail or eCommerce ecosystem.


• Deep understanding of system design, scalability, performance optimization, and reliability engineering.


• Strong proficiency in at least one backend programming language (Java, Node.js, Python, etc.).


• Experience with AWS (or other public cloud providers) and modern DevOps practices.


• Ability to translate complex business problems into clear, maintainable technical solutions.


• Demated ability to influence without authority and lead across multiple teams.

must haves

• Acknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for your life.


• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results.


• Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same.


• Lead with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.


• Foster connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.


• Integrate fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn't take yourself too seriously.

additional notes

Authorization to work in Canada is required for this role.

compensation and benefits package

lululemon's compensation offerings are grounded in a pay-for-performance philosophy that recognizes exceptional individual and teamperformance. Thetypical hiring range for this position is from $148,000 - $194,300 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.

At 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:

• Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans


• Paid time off


• Savings and retirement plan matching


• Generous employee discount


• Fitness & yoga classes


• Parenthood top-up


• Extensive catalog of development course offerings


• People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few)

Note: 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.

workplace arrangement

Hybrid

In-person collaboration and connection is important to our culture. Work is performed onsite, minimum 4 days per week.