About Us
As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here, we believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.
Overview about TII
At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from different backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.
Position Overview As an Engineering Manager for our Observability team, you will lead a highly specialized group of three Senior Engineers responsible for building and maintaining technical "nervous system."
You will oversee the foundational tools and frameworks that ensure our distributed services are reliable, performant, and cost-effective. By guiding senior-level technical talent, you will drive strategic alignment across the organization, managing the complex balance of high-fidelity system monitoring and financial efficiency. Your leadership will be pivotal in shaping how engineering teams understand, troubleshoot, and optimize their services at scale.
How you can make an impact:
- Lead and Empower: Manage, mentor, and remove roadblocks for a specialized team of Senior Engineers, fostering an environment of high performance, deep technical exploration, and continuous career growth.
- Architect the Nervous System: Provide technical direction and oversight on the implementation and scaling of critical observability frameworks, leveraging tools like Open Telemetry and Prometheus to manage complex, high-cardinality data.
- Drive Data-Driven Reliability: Champion a culture of absolute reliability across the engineering organization by defining, standardizing, and promoting the active use of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).
- Standardize Engineering Environments: Lead the creation of repeatable, uniform development environments and approved tooling suites (governed containerizes, package managers, dependencies, etc.) optimized for both human engineers and automated agents to maximize output consistency and eliminate environment drift.
- Shift-Left Security Guardrails: Integrate automated vulnerability scanning directly into the core developer toolchain, intercepting security risks prior to package or tool installation while delivering immediate, actionable remediation steps for developers and automated systems alike.
- Optimize Observability Data Costs: Strategically manage the high costs associated with massive telemetry data generation and storage, ensuring deep system insights are achieved without unchecked data sprawl.
- Enable Financial Transparency: Build and refine financial callback and show back mechanisms (using platforms like Vantage) that empower Engineering Managers, Directors, and VPs to monitor, understand, and autonomously manage their own service costs.
- Collaborate for the Future: Partner closely with Principal Engineers, product management, and operations to define and execute the long-term technical roadmap for operational resilience and cloud cost observability.
- Streamline Operations: Implement processes that balance the demands of running a critical, high-availability platform with your team’s capacity, ensuring sustainable and efficient engineering practices.
About you:
- Bachelor’s or more advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
- 5+ years of software or systems engineering experience, with a deep, proven background in Observability, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), FinOps, or Infrastructure.
- 1+ years of engineering management experience, with a strong aptitude for leading, mentoring, and retaining senior-level individual contributors.
- Deep technical understanding of the observability landscape, including hands-on experience with high-cardinality data systems, Open Telemetry, Prometheus, FOCUS or similar systems.
- Proven experience operationalizing performance targets like SLOs, cost budgets within large-scale, highly available distributed architectures.
- Strong grasp of cloud financial management principles, with the ability to design and implement financial callbacks, show backs, and cost-efficiency metrics for broader engineering leadership.
- Demonstrated excellent communication and organizational skills, with a strategic approach to driving the adoption of observability standards across distinct engineering teams.
Know More About Us here:
Life at Target- https://india.target.com/
Benefits- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits
Culture- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/belonging
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 5+ years of software or systems engineering experience with demonstrable work in Observability, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), FinOps, or Infrastructure.
- 1+ years of engineering management experience leading and mentoring senior individual contributors.
- Hands-on experience with observability tooling and high-cardinality data systems (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, FOCUS or similar).
- Proven experience operationalizing SLOs/SLIs and cost budgets within large-scale, highly available distributed architectures.
- Strong understanding of cloud financial management (FinOps) and experience designing financial callbacks/show-backs (experience with platforms like Vantage).
- Experience integrating automated vulnerability scanning into developer toolchains and providing actionable remediation.
- Experience standardizing developer environments and approved tooling suites (containerization, package managers, dependency governance).
- Excellent communication and organizational skills with a track record driving cross-team adoption of observability standards.
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.
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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.
