Unleash Your Potential at L'Oréal's Beauty Tech!
Who Are We?
For 115 years, L’Oréal, the world’s leading beauty player, has devoted itself to one thing only: fulfilling the beauty aspirations of consumers around the world.
For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to one business: Beauty. Present in 150 countries across five continents and with €42 billion consolidated sales, L'Oréal is the global industry leader. With 37 global beauty brands across four divisions, L’Oréal offers beauty for each covering all beauty categories and catering to all beauty desires. With the acquisition of the Australian brand Aēsop in 2023, the Group continues to expand its portfolio through targeted acquisitions as part of its drive to create the future of beauty.
Today, L’Oréal includes more than 2,000 tech professionals and is constantly growing. Beauty Tech is changing the game and leading the shift towards new consumer realities and a digital disruption. Championing Beauty Tech, we invent the beauty of the future while becoming the company of the future.
Beauty Tech is how we know our consumers intimately, augmenting their beauty journeys with unparalleled diverse and sustainable experiences. Beauty Tech equips the Group with the key assets it needs to conquer this new world, where Tech has become strategic. With this ambition, L’Oréal continues to recruit diverse, innovative, skilled and passionate minds in different tech domains such as Data, Digital, Cloud, Cyber Security, IT Architecture, DevOps, Applications and Infrastructure.
A Day in the Life of GLOBAL API INTEGRATION ENGINEER (Apigee X + Hybrid Developer)
The Global API Platform Engineer serves as the key expert for operating and optimizing L’Oréal’s Apigee X platform and API lifecycle. This hands-on role manages deployments, security, CI/CD pipelines, and observability to ensure APIs are secure, performant, scalable, and aligned with the Group’s API-First strategy across hybrid environments (Apigee). The Global API Integration Engineer is the enterprise reference for API platform and lifecycle
MISSIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The mission of the Global API Integration Engineer is to design and maintain a secure, scalable API management framework using Apigee X to enable seamless integration across global systems and ensure high performance and reliability.
In this role, You will..
Be responsible for the following:
- Apigee Platform Management: Operate, maintain, and continuously improve the Apigee X platform, ensuring stability, high performance, and scalability across all environments.
- CI/CD & Automation: Design and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for Apigee deployments (e.g., environments, proxies, shared flows, policies). Implement infrastructure-as-code practices using tools such as Terraform and Cloud Build.
- Security & Compliance: Implement and maintain security policies (OAuth2, OIDC, API Keys, Rate Limiting, IP Filtering). Ensure all APIs exposed through Apigee adhere to enterprise security and compliance standards.
- Performance & Observability: Define and manage monitoring, alerting, and logging standards using GCP native tools and/or external solutions (e.g.,ELK). Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Platform Reliability & Incident Management: Ensure high availability of the platform. Establish operational procedures for incident detection, escalation, and resolution.
- Automation & Continuous Improvement: Automate repetitive operational workflows (API deployments, policy updates, configuration management). Drive platform optimization through scripting and tool integration.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cloud engineers, security teams, and product teams to support integration of backend services through APIs and maintain consistent delivery standards.
- Performance & observability: Define monitoring and alerting standards for API traffic to ensure high availability and low latency.
What are we looking for?
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
This role ensures the reliable, secure, and efficient operation of the enterprise API ecosystem. Specifically, the Global API Integration Engineer is accountable for:
- Platform Stability: Guarantee Apigee X operates smoothly, securely, and meets enterprise-grade service levels.
- Operational Excellence: Leverage automation and observability to maintain reliability and improve efficiency.
- Security Enforcement: Ensure the API gateway acts as a secure, compliant, and resilient layer for all exposed services.
- Performance Optimization: Monitor traffic patterns and system metrics to ensure low latency and optimal throughput
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Seniority & Experience:
- 9-12 years of total experience in software engineering and enterprise integration.
- Minimum 5 years of deep, hands-on experience architecting and implementing solutions on the Google Apigee platform
- Experience operating in global, federated organizations with complex integration requirements.
Technical expertise & Hard skills
Expertise in Apigee internals: Proxies, Shared Flows, Custom Policies (Java/JavaScript/Python), Spike Arrest, and Quota management.
- API Security Mastery: Advanced implementation of OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, Mutual TLS, and Web Application Firewalls (WAF), Cloud Armor
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Strong knowledge of Google Cloud and Kubernetes (GKE) as the backend environment for API services.
- DevOps & Automation: CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), scripting (Java, JavaScript, Python).
- Traffic Management: Proficiency in load balancing, rate limiting, and caching strategies at the gateway level.
- Observability: Experience with Apigee Analytics and integration with logging stacks (ELK, Splunk, or Azure Monitor).
Soft skills & Mindset
- Problem-Solving: Resolves incidents and performance issues proactively.
- Collaboration: Partners with cloud, security, and product teams.
- Communication: Documents process clearly for team adoption.
- Pragmatism: Automate workflows efficiently
Certifications
- Mandatory: • Google Cloud Certified - Professional API Engineer (Apigee).
- Nice to have: • Google Professional Cloud Developer.
What’s In It for You?
- Working with cutting edge Technology, empowering employees with new age learning, global exposure, and opportunities to build future-ready careers.
- A flexible and modern workplace, enabling teams to perform at their best through a smart hybrid model that supports balance and autonomy. A 3 Day in Office, 2 Day Work from Home setup.
- Employee support at every life stage, with inclusive and progressive parental policies that help individuals and families thrive.
- Holistic wellbeing offerings - personalized health benefits and strong mental wellness support to ensure employees feel their best.
- Reward and Recognition opportunities, long-term incentives, and opportunities to share in L’Oréal’s collective success.
- L'Oreal is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in a diverse environment
Good to know: The Recruitment Process
- Interview with HR
- Technical Interview
- Interview with the hiring manager
We would love to find out more about you as a candidate and we do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices. The beauty we find in our differences gives us the freedom to go beyond. That’s the beauty of L’Oréal.
