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 will lead the design and development of platform-level capabilities for operational intelligence, reliability engineering, and automation across enterprise collaboration ecosystems. You will work on telemetry-driven systems that identify what is unhealthy, why it is happening, and what should be done next — while building automation and architecture that scales across multiple platforms and partners
Key Responsibilities- Own the design and delivery of critical backend and analytics platform components
- Build scalable telemetry, analytics, and automation systems
- Define operational metrics, health signals, and reliability indicators
- Drive platform evolution from provider-specific analytics to reusable cross-platform capabilities
- Enable reliable operations through engineering guardrails, automation, and data-backed workflows
- Partner cross-functionally with Endpoint Engineering, Device Management, Security, and collaboration platform stakeholders
- Mentor other engineers and raise technical quality across the team
- Strong backend engineering experience in Python or similar technologies
- Deep SQL, data processing, and systems design experience
- Experience designing scalable services, APIs, or data-intensive platforms
- Strong problem-solving ability across complex operational systems
- Experience dealing with ambiguity and translating business/operational problems into engineering solutions
- Experience in observability, telemetry platforms, SRE, reliability engineering, or operational analytics
- Experience with anomaly detection, performance monitoring, and report automation
- Familiarity with enterprise collaboration platforms and their operational signals
- Strong practical understanding of LLM-enabled systems, including:
- model selection for latency vs reasoning
- token/cost optimization
- prompt and response architecture
- evaluation and safety considerations
- production design patterns for AI-assisted workflows
Skills Required
- Strong backend engineering experience in Python or similar technologies
- Deep SQL, data processing, and systems design experience
- Experience designing scalable services, APIs, or data-intensive platforms
- Strong problem-solving ability across complex operational systems
- Experience dealing with ambiguity and translating business/operational problems into engineering solutions
- Experience in observability, telemetry platforms, SRE, reliability engineering, or operational analytics
- Experience with anomaly detection, performance monitoring, and report automation
- Familiarity with enterprise collaboration platforms and their operational signals
- Strong practical understanding of LLM-enabled systems including model selection, token/cost optimization, prompt and response architecture, evaluation and safety, and production design patterns for AI-assisted workflows
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.
