Platform Engineer - Enterprise Applications & AI

Lululemon Athletica; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 112,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health and dental benefits

PTO and vacation time

Retirement plan matching

Parenthood top-up

Career development programs

Job summary

lululemon Athletica is seeking a Platform Engineer to design and build internal developer platforms and core infrastructure. You will engineer Kubernetes platforms, create self-service capabilities, and implement observability across pipelines and deployments.

You will mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to advance platform automation and enterprise AI initiatives. This hybrid role requires in-person collaboration at the Vancouver area site and adherence to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 4–8 years of experience designing platform solutions and scalable distributed systems.
• Experience with self-service platforms and developer-focused interfaces.
• Experience engineering Kubernetes platforms for production workloads.
• Proven ability to design cloud infrastructure abstractions for app teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build internal developer platforms and core infrastructure.
• Engineer Kubernetes platforms, cluster architecture, and service mesh.
• Build CI/CD tooling and delivery pipelines to standardize workflows.
• Create self-service platforms, APIs, and templates for rapid provisioning.
• Develop observability platforms and monitoring dashboards; manage incidents.

Skills

Kubernetes platforms

CI/CD tooling

Observability

Infrastructure as code

Platform automation

Self-service platforms

Security controls

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Copilot Studio

Azure AD

HashiCorp Vault

Azure Key Vault

Job description

Platform Engineer - Enterprise Applications & AI

Business Unit: Store Support Centre (SSC)

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.

about this team

The Enterprise Automation team identifies and delivers organizational and persona-based opportunities to improve productivity, efficiency, and employee experience through automation, agentic automation, and AI. We partner with business and technology teams across lululemon to design, build, and scale intelligent solutions using various agentic automation and emerging AI technologies, while establishing the governance, standards, and platforms that enable automation and AI to be adopted securely, responsibly, and at enterprise scale.

core responsibilities

As a Platform Engineer, you will design and build internal developer platforms and core infrastructure independently that enable engineering velocity and operational excellence. You will engineer Kubernetes platforms and container orchestration solutions, build CI/CD tooling and delivery pipelines, and create self-service capabilities that allow application teams to provision infrastructure and deploy services safely and efficiently. You will build and deploy observability platforms including logging systems, metrics collection, distributed tracing, and monitoring dashboards, conduct infrastructure validation and disaster recovery testing, and respond to platform incidents. You will collaborate with application engineering teams to understand requirements, make platform design decisions within established architecture, and mentor junior engineers on platform engineering practices.

select responsibilities include:

• Engineer Kubernetes platforms and container orchestration solutions including cluster architecture, pod networking, and service mesh
• Build and maintain CI/CD and delivery tooling to standardize build, test, release workflows and engineering artifact management
• Create self-service platforms including APIs, templates, and portals that allow application teams to provision infrastructure quickly and safely
• Build and deploy observability platforms including logging infrastructure, metrics pipelines, distributed tracing systems, alerting platforms, and monitoring dashboards
• Lead incident response for platform issues including root cause analysis, mitigation, and implementing preventive measures

qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience

4-8 years of experience designing platform solutions, implementing infrastructure as code, and building scalable distributed systems, or equivalent

Proven experience designing and implementing complex platform solutions with self-service capabilities; track record of leading design discussions on platform automation approaches presenting trade-offs

Experience engineering Kubernetes platforms and container orchestration solutions for production workloads; demonstrated ability to design cloud infrastructure abstractions enabling application teams to deploy without deep infrastructure knowledge

Experience creating self-service platforms including APIs, templates, and portals allowing teams to provision and deploy safely; familiarity with designing platform interfaces focused on developer usability and productivity

Own the lifecycle, administration, and operational support of enterprise AI and agentic automation platforms, including Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, , ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude, and other emerging AI technologies

Design and manage secure platform access controls, including RBAC, Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD groups, user provisioning, license assignment, entitlement management, and automated onboarding/offboarding processes.

Build and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting AI and automation solutions, including virtual machines, platform environments, networking, deployment pipelines, environment management, and infrastructure automation across development, test, and production environments.

Implement and support enterprise security and secrets management capabilities, including HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault, certificate management, credential rotation, secure integrations, and compliance with organizational security standards

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 positionis from $112,200 – 147,200 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
• 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.

Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest. Lululemon is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. This Equal Employment Opportunity policy applies to all practices relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, discipline, transfer, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment. While management is primarily responsible for seeing that Lululemon equal employment opportunity policies are implemented, you share in the responsibility for assuring that, by your personal actions, the policies are effective.

lululemon is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you would like someone from our team to contact you for individualized support, email us [e-mail] . In your email, please include the position title, the location of the position and the nature of your request.

The use of AI tools, including but not limited to ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, DeepSeek, or any other AI-assisted software, is strictly prohibited during the interview process. This includes, AI-generated responses, content creation, or any form of automated assistance in live interviews, case studies, technical assessments, or written submissions.

At lululemon, we are committed to privacy, integrity, transparency, and ethical hiring practices. Our commitment to responsible AI ensures that proprietary information is protected and that all hiring decisions are based on an individual’s own skills, judgment, and expertise without AI assistance. Any use of AI during the interview process will result in immediate disqualification. lululemon reserves the right to use AI detection tools to verify the authenticity of candidate responses.