Lead Engineer Managed Containers - Target India

Roundel; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Employee discount

Job summary

Target in Bengaluru seeks a Lead Engineer to architect, build, and operate cloud-native platform solutions. You will design scalable Kubernetes-based workloads, develop APIs with Java/Kotlin and Go, and implement GitOps for deployment and operations.

Experience with microservices, CI/CD, and cloud platforms (GCP preferred) is essential. You will work with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, resilient, and high-quality services for guests and team members.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or an engineering field.
• 10+ years of software or platform engineering experience.
• Strong architectural and leadership capabilities for cloud-native platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native platform solutions.
• Build and manage containerized workloads on Kubernetes.
• Develop APIs and microservices using Java, Kotlin, and Go.
• Implement GitOps deployment and operate platform services.
• Improve observability, reliability, and performance of applications.
• Collaborate across platform, infra, and product teams for secure, scalable solutions.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Micronaut/Spring Boot

Go/Groovy

Microservices

GitOps (Argo CD/Flux)

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Caching/SQL

Cloud platforms (GCP)

IaC (Terraform/Helm/Kustomize)

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

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.

We are looking for a Lead Engineer with strong platform engineering experience in designing, building, and operating cloud-native applications and microservices on Kubernetes-based platforms.

The ideal candidate will have expertise in modern application development frameworks, cloud-native technologies, and automation-first engineering 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.

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.

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.

We'll contact you if you're selected for next steps.

Our Benefits

• Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves.
• Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, paid vacation.

Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.