Senior Engineer - Compute Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure

Target Corporation India Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Target Corporation India Pvt Ltd in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design and build scalable compute infrastructure and platform services. You will develop production-grade services in Go, operate virtualization platforms with KVM/libvirt, and build REST/gRPC APIs for automation.

The team emphasizes automation, observability, and reliable production operations. Candidates bring 5+ years in software/platform engineering, strong Go, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and production operations

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field; Master's is a plus.
• 5+ years of relevant software development and cloud concepts/infrastructure experience.
• 5+ years of relevant software/platform engineering experience with a 4 years bachelor’s degree.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, resilient compute infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop production-quality services and infrastructure components using Go (Golang).
• Build and operate virtualization platforms using KVM, libvirt, and Linux.
• Develop REST/gRPC APIs and microservices for infrastructure automation and platform capabilities.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, testing, and operational workflows using Ansible.
• Build observability into platforms using Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, Grafana, InfluxDB, and Telegraf.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across compute, Linux, networking, storage, and virtualization.
• Improve platform availability, performance, scalability, operational readiness, and failure recovery.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, incident response, root-cause analysis, and production support.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers and collaborate with partner teams on architecture and platform decisions

Skills

Go (Golang)

Data structures

Concurrency

Software design

REST/gRPC

Production operations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Master's degree (plus)

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

CI/CD

Ansible

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

InfluxDB

Telegraf

libvirt

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 .

Education Qualification

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree is a plus.

Experience

5+ years of relevant experience in software development and cloud concepts/infrastructure.

What You’ll Bring

5+ years of relevant software/platform engineering experience with a 4 years bachelor’s degree.

Core Technical Skills

• Programming: Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) and solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and software design.
• Linux & Virtualization: Hands-on experience with Linux/Ubuntu, KVM, libvirt, or comparable server virtualization technologies.
• Containers: Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and container technologies such as containerd/Docker.
• Distributed Services: Experience building microservices and REST/gRPC APIs.
• Infrastructure: Strong fundamentals in compute, networking, storage, load balancing, high availability, security, and failure recovery.
• Automation: Experience with Ansible or comparable infrastructure automation/configuration-management tools.
• Observability: Hands-on experience with Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf, or equivalent observability platforms.
• Testing: Experience building unit, integration, and automated infrastructure/service tests.
• Engineering Practices: Strong knowledge of Git, CI/CD, code reviews, automated testing, and production software-development practices.
• Production Operations: Proven experience deploying, operating, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Deep knowledge of virtualization, container runtimes, distributed systems, or infrastructure platform engineering.
• Understanding of docker/container

What You’ll Do

• Design and build scalable, resilient compute infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop production-quality services and infrastructure components using Go (Golang).
• Build and operate virtualization platforms using KVM, libvirt, and Linux.
• Develop REST/gRPC APIs and microservices for infrastructure automation and platform capabilities.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, testing, and operational workflows using tools such as Ansible.
• Build observability into platforms using Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, Grafana, InfluxDB, and Telegraf.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across compute, Linux, networking, storage, and virtualization.
• Improve platform availability, performance, scalability, operational readiness, and failure recovery.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, incident response, root-cause analysis, and production support.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers and collaborate with partner teams on architecture and platform decisions

Experience Level Senior Level