About Target
As a Fortune 50 company with more than 450,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.
Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play. We prioritize relationships, fuel, and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It’s how we care, grow, and win together.
Target as a tech company? Absolutely. We’re the powerhouse that fuels Target’s passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. We anchor every facet of one of the world’s best-loved retailers with a strong technology framework that relies on the latest tools and technologies—and the brightest people—to deliver incredible value to guests online and in stores. Target Tech is on a mission to offer the systems, tools and support that guests and team members need and deserve. Our high-performing teams balance independence with collaboration, and we pride ourselves on being versatile, agile, and creative. We drive industry-leading technologies in support of every angle of the business, and help ensure that Target operates smoothly, securely, and reliably from the inside out.
About Team
The Hardware Engineering team plays a critical role in enabling Target's $100B+ retail platform by providing essential cloud platform capabilities. We empower engineering teams across Target to provide a stable, consumable, and performant Compute and Storage foundation across all our on-premises locations, including Stores, Supply Chain, and Data Centers. Our team is focused on delivering consistent product configuration that can be scaled to our needs through automation and lifecycle management.
Here’s the core of what we value, and the technologies we use:
- Our culture has three main pillars: care, grow, and win together, supported by our values of inclusivity, connection, and drive.
- Meeting the reliability, performance, and security commitments made to our customers is the most important part of our job.
- Our engineering teams are empowered to choose the right technology to solve the problem. Some common technologies currently in use include: Golang, Docker, CEPH, GitHub, Artifactory, the elastic stack, Influx DB, Grafana, React, MongoDB and the Google Cloud Platform and Azure.
- Nearly everything should have test cases and go through a continuous integration/continuous deployment process.
About the Role
As an Engineer in our Chimera team, you will excel as a full stack engineer to design, develop, implement and support a engineering platform developing products for our IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) platform. You will cultivate a learning culture while developing the platform and show curiosity in learning a diverse array of technologies bringing forth ideas to constantly enhance the product. You should be inclined to solve problems which oftentimes have not been solved anywhere with open source or vendor solutions. Due to Target’s sheer size...we manage thousands of servers across our on-premises environments and to maintain and scale this, we need creative, innovative, and in-house built automation to tailor to our specific needs. You’ll partner closely with our other HWE teams to deliver a core set of capabilities across the Compute and Storage HW domains. We will be ensuring our platform are secure, stable, performant, scalable and efficient. Success in this role will require strong and innovative approaches to problem solving, software engineering and communication skills. (written and verbal, formal and informal). You should be flexible, show accountability, and a self-motivated individual paying attention to detail.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
Desired Qualifications:
- 1-2 years of Experience coding in one of the following languages React/Golang/Python
- Experience in CI-CD pipelines and test-driven development.
- Strong Linux CLI skills
- Supporting 24x7 business critical capabilities.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Experience or knack for coding.
- Knowledge of technical approaches to design, build, test, and debug problems as required by domain.
- Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise.
- Aptitude to learn new technology and skills.
- Stays current with new and evolving technologies.
Useful Links-
Life at Target- https://india.target.com/
Benefits- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits
Culture- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/diversity-and-inclusion
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What We Do
Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop.
