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.
Pyramid Overview:
Managed Containers is part of Target’s Cloud Infrastructure Services, providing a core platform for building, deploying, and operating containerized applications at scale across Target’s diverse infrastructure footprint—including Target data centers, public cloud, Stores, and Distribution Centers.
The platform is designed around scalability, resiliency, security, compliance, observability, and operational excellence, enabling teams to consistently run workloads across multiple infrastructure environments.Engineers on the Managed Containers team work on large-scale distributed systems, Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, with a strong focus on automation-first engineering , infrastructure architecture, and developer experiences—building foundational capabilities that power applications and services across Target.
Position Overview:
We are looking for a Senior Engineer – Managed Containers with strong platform
engineering experience in designing, developing, and operating cloud-native applications and microservices on Kubernetes-based platforms. The ideal candidate is passionate about building scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native solutions and has hands-on experience with modern application frameworks, Kubernetes, automation, and DevOps practices.
Required Skills:
• Strong software development experience with Java/Kotlin and frameworks such as Micronaut or Spring Boot.
• Experience with Go (Golang) and/or Groovy/Ratpack is a plus.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, API design, and distributed
systems.
• Experience implementing GitOps practices using tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Hands-on experience developing, deploying, and operating applications on
Kubernetes.
• Experience with caching technologies and SQL databases.
• Experience with public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP); experience with AWS or Azure is also valued.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Kubernetes deployment tools,
including Terraform, Helm, and/or Kustomize.
• Experience with observability solutions, including metrics, logging, monitoring,
alerting, and distributed tracing.
• Strong problem-solving skills with experience troubleshooting production
applications and distributed systems.
Responsibilities:
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native applications and platform
services.
• Build, deploy, and operate containerized workloads on Kubernetes platforms.
• Develop APIs and microservices using Java, Kotlin, and/or Go.
• Implement and support GitOps-based deployment workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application and platform issues in production
environments.
• Improve application reliability, observability, performance, and scalability.
• Contribute to infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code and cloud-
native tooling.
• Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality solutions.
• Follow engineering best practices for security, resiliency, automation, and
operational excellence.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical
experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platform
engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
Know More About Us Here:
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- Target Tech- https://tech.target.com/
Skills Required
- Strong software development experience with Java or Kotlin and Micronaut or Spring Boot
- Experience with Go and/or Groovy/Ratpack
- Understanding of microservices architecture, API design, and distributed systems
- Experience implementing GitOps with Argo CD or Flux
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Hands-on experience developing, deploying, and operating applications on Kubernetes
- Experience with caching technologies and SQL databases
- Experience with public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform; AWS or Azure valued
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes deployment tools such as Terraform, Helm, or Kustomize
- Experience with observability solutions including metrics, logging, monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing
- Strong problem-solving and production troubleshooting skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience in software, cloud, platform, or infrastructure engineering
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.
