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 Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight in the application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertize in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Engineer with strong expertise in distributed storage systems and full-stack application development. This role requires deep ownership of production systems, automation maturity, and architectural leadership. You will be responsible for maintaining high-performing storage clusters while contributing to scalable application development and infrastructure automation initiatives.
Core Responsibilities
Storage Infrastructure & Reliability
Maintain, enhance, and performance-tune distributed storage clusters.
Drive improvements in availability, scalability, and capacity planning.
Strengthen observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities.
Lead root cause analysis and remediation of production incidents.
Improve system resilience and operational reliability.
Automation & CI/CD
Design and implement infrastructure automation solutions.
Enhance CI/CD pipelines for cluster provisioning, maintenance, and application deployments.
Reduce manual operational overhead through robust tooling and Infrastructure as Code practices.
Production Support & Troubleshooting
Troubleshoot complex production issues across storage and application layers.
Perform deep debugging in distributed environments.
Implement preventive measures to avoid incident recurrence.
Application Development
Design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack applications.
Build clean, extensible, and well-tested code aligned with engineering best practices.
Optimize applications for performance, reliability, and security.
Architecture & Engineering Excellence
Contribute to architectural decisions with a focus on:
Performance
Reliability
Security
Maintainability
Uphold engineering standards, code quality, and operational readiness.
Required Qualifications
Strong experience maintaining and performance tuning distributed storage clusters.
Proficiency in Go and/or Kotlin.
Experience with infrastructure automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Chef, or similar).
Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Strong understanding of distributed systems and production-grade environments.
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex system issues.
Experience designing scalable and resilient systems.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Ansible for configuration management.
Experience operating large-scale production environments.
Familiarity with container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes).
Knowledge of observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing).
Understanding of security best practices in distributed systems.
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.
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