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.
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to design, build, and operate highly available compute and private cloud infrastructure at scale. This role requires strong software engineering fundamentals combined with hands-on expertise in Go, Linux, virtualization, networking, storage, and production operations. Understanding of Kubernetes and docker/containers is a plus.
Education Qualification:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree is a plus.
Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience in software development and cloud concepts/infrastructure
What You’ll Bring
5+ years of relevant software/platform engineering experience with a 4 years bachelor’s degree.
Core Technical Skills
• Programming: Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) and solid understanding of data structures, algorithms,
concurrency, and software design.
• Linux & Virtualization: Hands-on experience with Linux/Ubuntu, KVM, libvirt, or comparable server virtualization technologies.
• Containers: Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and container technologies such as containerd/Docker.
• Distributed Services: Experience building microservices and REST/gRPC APIs.
• Infrastructure: Strong fundamentals in compute, networking, storage, load balancing, high availability, security, and failure recovery.
• Automation: Experience with Ansible or comparable infrastructure automation/configuration-management tools.
• Observability: Hands-on experience with Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf, or equivalent observability platforms.
• Testing: Experience building unit, integration, and automated infrastructure/service tests.
• Engineering Practices: Strong knowledge of Git, CI/CD, code reviews, automated testing, and production software-development practices.
• Production Operations: Proven experience deploying, operating, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Deep knowledge of virtualization, container runtimes, distributed systems, or infrastructure platform engineering.
• Understanding of docker/container
What You’ll Do
• Design and build scalable, resilient compute infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop production-quality services and infrastructure components using Go (Golang).
• Build and operate virtualization platforms using KVM, libvirt, and Linux.
• Develop REST/gRPC APIs and microservices for infrastructure automation and platform capabilities.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, testing, and operational workflows using tools such as Ansible.
• Build observability into platforms using Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, Grafana, InfluxDB, and Telegraf.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across compute, Linux, networking, storage, and virtualization.
• Improve platform availability, performance, scalability, operational readiness, and failure recovery.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, incident response, root-cause analysis, and production support.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers and collaborate with partner teams on architecture and platform
decisions
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of relevant experience in software development and cloud concepts or infrastructure
- Strong proficiency in Go, including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and software design
- Hands-on experience with Linux or Ubuntu and KVM, libvirt, or comparable server virtualization technologies
- Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and container technologies such as Docker or containerd
- Experience building microservices and REST or gRPC APIs
- Experience with compute, networking, storage, load balancing, high availability, security, and failure recovery
- Experience with Ansible or comparable infrastructure automation and configuration-management tools
- Experience with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf, or equivalent observability platforms
- Experience building unit, integration, and automated infrastructure or service tests
- Knowledge of Git, CI/CD, code reviews, automated testing, and production software-development practices
- Proven experience deploying, operating, monitoring, and troubleshooting production systems
- Deep knowledge of virtualization, container runtimes, distributed systems, or infrastructure platform engineering
- Master's degree
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.
