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 a lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product.
You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a "force multiplier". Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description.
Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals.
As a Lead Engineer on the Cloud Enablement team, you'll take the lead as you:
Deploy, manage, and support cloud infrastructure solutions using Cloud services, particularly Google Cloud, with a strong focus on cloud networking.
Implement best practices for cloud resource provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, and security.
Develop and maintain cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code tools to automate deployment and configuration tasks.
Drive continuous improvement through the adoption of automation and orchestration.
Use your technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain.
Evaluate new technologies and participates in decision-making, accounting for several factors such as viability within Target's technical environment, maintainability, and cost of ownership. Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies.
Lead or set strategy for testing and debugging at the platform or enterprise level.
In complex and unstructured situations, serve as an expert resource to create and improve standards and best practices to ensure high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables.
Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services.
Provide the team with thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, scalable patterns.
Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate.
Monitor workflow and risks; play a leadership role in mitigating risks and removing obstacles.
Lead and participate in complex construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements met.
Establish new standards and best practices to monitor, test, automate, and maintain IT components or systems.
Stay current with Target's technical capabilities, infrastructure, and technical environment.
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
9+ years of software development, cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience with a focus on cloud services
Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding cloud platforms, including account/project management, compute, storage, databases, networking, serverless, IAM, security, observability, and cost management
Experience using IaC tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, or similar technologies
Experience developing APIs, automation, and operational tooling using GoLang, Python, and Bash scripting
Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and managed Kubernetes platforms such as GKE
Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Cloud Operations, Splunk, Datadog, or similar
Familiarity with various Linux distributions, virtual machines, containers, networking, DNS, load balancing, and cloud-native runtime environments
Communicates and coordinates effectively with project teams, application teams, partners, and stakeholders
Demonstrates expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, reliability, scalability, security, and operational health
Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems, internal developer platforms, automation frameworks, or shared cloud platform services
Skills Required
- 4 year degree or equivalent experience
- 9+ years of software development, cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience
- Deep knowledge of cloud platforms including account/project management, compute, storage, databases, networking, serverless, IAM, security, observability, and cost management
- Experience using IaC tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, or similar
- Experience developing APIs, automation, and operational tooling using Go, Python, and Bash scripting
- Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and managed Kubernetes platforms such as GKE
- Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Cloud Operations, Splunk, or Datadog
- Familiarity with Linux distributions, virtual machines, containers, networking, DNS, and load balancing
- Experience building highly scalable distributed systems, internal developer platforms, automation frameworks, or shared cloud platform services
- Strong communication and stakeholder coordination skills
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.
