About us:
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
As an engineer, you serve as a technical specialist delivering the engineering that powers the product. You develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components. You constantly demonstrate the depth of your expertise by solving engineering problems. You are passionate about the quality of software and balance between speed of delivering new features and robustness of the software components you implement. You can handle operational issues with little or no oversight. You actively review code to ensure the software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team. You are keen to learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both.
About Kafka Team: -
We provide Kafka infrastructure capabilities across both Target Data Centers and GCP. Used by all Target Tech engineering community. The Development Team is present in both TII &
MPLS providing seamless 24/7 support to Target.
Here’s a smattering of approaches important to us and the technologies we use:
Everything we do is “as-code” in version control. We don’t like clicking buttons or doing things manually.
All development or infra config changes go through a pull-request process, so you’ll always have a say to thumbs up or down things you catch.
Everything should have test cases and they go through a continuous integration process.
We understand the importance of logs and metrics, so having visibility to things you need to see to do your job isn’t an issue. And if you need to add more metrics or see more logs, it’s within our control to improve that.
We try to own as much of the platform as we reasonably can. You don’t need to rely on other teams outside our own to improve the stack or change the way we do things.
Kafka/Streaming Stack:
○ Code: Spring Boot (Java/Kotlin), Restful API, Golang
○ Platform: Apache Kafka 2.x, TAP, GCP, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Vela
○ Alerting/Monitoring: Grafana, Kibana, ELK stack
As a Senior Engineer on Target’s Streaming Platform Team, you'll …
Help build out the Kafka/Streaming capability in India
Write and deploy code that enhances the Kafka platform
Designs infrastructure solutions that support automation, self- provisioning, product health, security/compliance, resiliency, zero- call aspiration, and are Guest/Team Member experience focused
Troubleshoot and resolve platform operational issues
Requirements:
2+ years of experience developing in JVM-based languages (e.g. Java/Kotlin)
Ability to apply skills to solve problems, aptitude to learn additional technologies or go deeper in an area.
Has good basic programming/infrastructure skills and is able to quickly gather the skills necessary to accomplish the task at hand.
Basic knowledge and skills associated with infrastructure- based technologies
Experience with modern platforms and CI/CD stacks (e.g. GitHub, Vela, Docker)
Highly productive, self-starter and self-motivated
Desired:
● 2+ years of experience developing high quality applications and/or supporting critical enterprise platforms
● Experience with Kafka, Containers(k8s), Zookeeper, worked with any one of the major public cloud providers ( GCP/AWS/AZURE)
● Familiarity with Golang and microservices architecture is a big plus
● Participate in day-to-day support requests by performing the admin tasks.
● Basic understanding of infrastructure/software and how these systems are secured, analyzed, and investigated.
● Innovative mindset – willingness to push new ideas into the company
Skills Required
- 2+ years of experience developing in JVM-based languages (Java/Kotlin)
- Experience with modern platforms and CI/CD stacks (e.g., GitHub, Vela, Docker)
- Basic programming and infrastructure skills with ability to learn new technologies
- Basic knowledge of infrastructure-based technologies
- Highly productive, self-starter and self-motivated
- Experience with Kafka, Containers (k8s), Zookeeper, and a major public cloud provider (GCP/AWS/Azure)
- Familiarity with Golang and microservices architecture
- Experience supporting critical enterprise platforms and performing admin/support tasks
- Basic understanding of how infrastructure/software systems are secured, analyzed, and investigated
- Innovative mindset and willingness to propose new ideas
Target Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Target and has not been reviewed or approved by Target.
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Healthcare Strength — Health benefits are accessible to hourly team members at relatively low hour thresholds and include no‑cost, 24/7 virtual medical care and expanded mental‑health support. This breadth is positioned as a relative strength compared to typical retail offerings.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match with immediate vesting and options like Roth 401(k) and stock purchase. These features strengthen long‑term savings for a wide range of roles.
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Parental & Family Support — Family support includes paid family leave, backup care, and reimbursements for adoption and surrogacy. These resources complement paid time off and holidays for eligible team members.
Target Insights
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.
