Lead Engineer - Cloud Native Platforms and Kubernetes

Target Corporation India Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Target India is seeking a Lead Engineer for Managed Containers in Bengaluru. You will serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team, owning the application architecture to best serve the product and drive architectural changes for faster feature delivery and higher quality services.

You will design, deploy, and manage cloud-native platforms, containerized workloads on Kubernetes, and APIs using Java, Kotlin, and Go. Strong GitOps, CI/CD, and observability capabilities are essential.

Qualifications

• Senior lead engineer with cloud and platform focus.
• Experience designing scalable cloud-native platforms.
• Strong ownership of architecture and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native platform solutions for hosting applications and services.
• Build, deploy, and manage containerized workloads on Kubernetes platforms.
• Develop APIs and microservices using Java, Kotlin, and/or Go.
• Implement GitOps-based deployment and operational practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform and application operational issues.
• Improve application observability, reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Architect infrastructure solutions that enable automation, self-service provisioning, resiliency, security, compliance, and operational excellence while delivering an exceptional Guest and Team Member experience.
• Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality cloud-native solutions.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Micronaut/Spring Boot

Go/Groovy

Microservices

GitOps

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Caching/SQL

Cloud: GCP/AWS/Azure

IaC/Deployment tools

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Argo CD

Flux

Terraform

Helm

Kustomize

Kubernetes

Job description

Lead Engineer Managed Containers - Target India

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 lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a "force multiplier". Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native platform solutions for hosting applications and services.
• Build, deploy, and manage containerized workloads on Kubernetes platforms.
• Develop APIs and microservices using Java, Kotlin, and/or Go.
• Implement GitOps-based deployment and operational practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform and application operational issues.
• Improve application observability, reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Architect infrastructure solutions that enable automation, self-service provisioning, resiliency, security, compliance, and operational excellence while delivering an exceptional Guest and Team Member experience.
• Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality cloud-native solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering.

Experience Level Senior Level