Senior Engineer Web Enablement
Brooklyn Park, MN - USA
Job Summary
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on include labor markets and in some instancesmay include education work experience and addition to your pay Target cares about and invests in you as a team member so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs which may include medical vision dental life insurance and more to help you and your family take care of your whole benefits for eligible team members include 401(k) employee discount short term disability long term disability paid sick leave paid national holidays and paid competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at us:
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision tolife through our values and culture.Learn more about Target here.
As a SeniorEngineer within Digital Enablement you specialize in building and supporting the platforms and tools that enable teams to deliver reliable scalable digital experiences. You translate architectural concepts into practical resilient solutions and apply strong engineering patterns to improve system reliability and operational efficiency. You influence design and implementation decisionsprovidetechnical guidance to partner teams and help diagnose and resolve complex issues in distributed systems. Youleverageautomation and best practices to prevent repeat problems and strengthen the overall stability of Targets digital ecosystem.
About this Team:
TheDigital Enablementteam builds and supports the foundational platforms tools and reliability frameworks that empower Targets digital product teams to deliver high-quality guest experiences at scale. We focus on improving engineering efficiency operational excellence and system reliability across the digital ecosystem.
Our team partners closely with engineers across the enterprise to provide modern deployment tooling observability frameworks and best-in-class reliability practices that enable teams to innovate quickly whilemaintaininga highly resilient production environment. We work at the intersection of software engineering cloud infrastructure and site reliability driving standards automation and proactive problem-solving to ensure Targets digital platformsremainfast stable and scalable.
Use your skills experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Sr. Engineeryoulltake the lead as you
Use your technology acumen to apply andmaintainknowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain. Evaluatenew technologiesandparticipatein decision-making accounting for several factors such as viability within Targets technical environment maintainability and cost of ownership. Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities fornew technologies. Manage total product financials and forecasting. Lead the design lifecycle management and total cost of ownership of services. Lead and conduct code review design review testing and debugging activities at the application level. Lead functional design and architecture discussions withunderstanding ofprocess flows and system diagrams to enable design decisions. Participate in routine and non-routine construction automation and implementation activities ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements and best practices met. Provide technical oversight and coach others to resolve complex and severe technical issues. Lead disaster recovery activities and contribute to disaster recovery planning. Embed data quality protocols throughout data acquisition processing storage and operational use.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you:
BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
4 years of software engineering experience with a focus on building andmaintainingproduction-grade APIs and developer tooling
2 years of experience designing and building RESTful orgRPCAPIs preferably in Go and/or TypeScript
2 years of experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices including authoring GitHub Actions workflows
Hands-on experience building backend services CLIs or platform tooling that improve developer productivity or support large-scale web deployments
Experience working with major cloud platforms such as AWS GCP or Azure
Experience containerizing applications and deploying them on orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and Docker
Basic understanding of CDN concepts including caching traffic routing and edge configuration (e.g. Fastly Cloudflare or similar)
Familiarity with observability practices including log aggregation metrics and distributed tracing
Proficiencywith Git and collaborative development workflows (branching strategies code review etc.)
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to drive technical decisions and mentor peers
Strong analytical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
About Company
1234 employees
Target Corporation is an American retail corporation. The eighth-largest retailer in the United States, it is a component of the S&P 500 Index.