Sr. Engineer – Cloud and Compute Platform Teams

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 This requisition may encompass multiple openings across both our Cloud & Compute teams.

About 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 Senior Engineer you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight in the application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertise in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.

Targets Cloud & Compute organization builds and operates the foundational platforms that power the experiences our guests team members partners and engineers rely on every day. We are looking for engineers to help design automate scale and evolve the cloud-native infrastructure reliability practices and developer-facing capabilities behind modern retail technology. Depending on the team you may work across Kubernetes and container platforms compute and storage Kafka and data movement observability cloud management site reliability engineering or the cloud console experiences that make our platforms easier and safer to use.

In this role you will solve complex distributed systems and platform engineering challenges while creating secure resilient and self-service solutions that enable teams across Target to move faster with confidence. You will collaborate with product engineering and security to build reliable services improve automation define operational standards strengthen observability support production readiness and continuously raise the bar for performance availability efficiency and user experience. If you enjoy building platforms that serve many teams operating systems at scale learning across technical domains and turning complex infrastructure into simple dependable experiences this is an opportunity to make a broad impact across Target Technology.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience

• 5 years of software development experience

• Strong proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Java Go Python TypeScript JavaScript Kotlin or similar

• Experience designing building and operating scalable reliable and secure distributed systems cloud platforms infrastructure services or developer-facing tools

• Hands-on experience in one or more cloud-native or platform engineering domains such as Kubernetes containers compute storage networking messaging or streaming platforms observability SRE cloud management platform AI APIs or web-based console development

• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality technical solutions with consideration for performance availability latency scalability security maintainability and cost efficiency.

• Builds strong commitment within the team to support the appropriate team priorities

• Clearly communicates Agile concepts to partners within product team

• Demonstrates a solid understanding of the impact of own work on the team and/or guests

• Writes and organizes code using multiple computer languages including distributed programming and understand different frameworks and paradigm

• Delivers high-performance scalable repeatable and secure deliverables with broad impact (high throughput and low latency)

• Influences and applies data standards policies and procedures

• Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise

• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Targets needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team members core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually depending upon what your role team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

Benefits Eligibility

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