Sr Engineer - Target India

Target Corp; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Target Corp in Bengaluru is seeking a Senior Engineer – Managed Containers to design, build, and operate cloud-native applications on Kubernetes, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across Target’s infrastructure.

You will drive GitOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC with Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize, collaborate with platform, infra, and product teams, and continuously improve observability and performance of containerized services.

Qualifications

• Strong software development experience with Java/Kotlin and frameworks such as Micronaut or Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native tooling.
• Experience implementing GitOps using Argo CD or Flux, and building CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native applications and platform services.
• Build, deploy, and operate containerized workloads on Kubernetes platforms.
• Develop APIs and microservices using Java/Kotlin and Go.
• Implement GitOps-based deployment workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in distributed systems.
• Improve reliability, observability, performance, and scalability of applications.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Micronaut/Spring Boot

Go

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

APIs & Microservices

Cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure)

IaC (Terraform/Helm/Kustomize)

Observability

SQL Databases

Caching

Distributed Systems

DevOps Practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Flux

Terraform

Helm

Kustomize

Java

Kotlin

Micronaut

Spring Boot

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.**Pyramid Overview:****Managed Containers** is part of Target’s Cloud Infrastructure Services, providing a core platform for building, deploying, and operating containerized applications at scale across Target’s diverse infrastructure footprint—including Target data centers, public cloud, Stores, and Distribution Centers. The platform is designed around scalability, resiliency, security, compliance, observability, and operational excellence, enabling teams to consistently run workloads across multiple infrastructure environments.Engineers on the Managed Containers team work on large-scale distributed systems, Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, with a strong focus on automation-first engineering , infrastructure architecture, and developer experiences—building foundational capabilities that power applications and services across Target. **Position Overview:**We are looking for a Senior Engineer – Managed Containers with strong platformengineering experience in designing, developing, and operating cloud-native applications and microservices on Kubernetes-based platforms. The ideal candidate is passionate about building scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native solutions and has hands-on experience with modern application frameworks, Kubernetes, automation, and DevOps 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 distributedsystems.• 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 onKubernetes.• 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.• Strong problem-solving skills with experience troubleshooting productionapplications and distributed systems. **Responsibilities:**• Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native applications and platformservices.• Build, deploy, and operate containerized workloads on Kubernetes platforms.• Develop APIs and microservices using Java, Kotlin, and/or Go.• Implement and support GitOps-based deployment workflows and CI/CD pipelines.• Troubleshoot and resolve application and platform issues in productionenvironments.• Improve application reliability, observability, performance, and scalability.• Contribute to infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code and cloud-native tooling.• Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality solutions.• Follow engineering best practices for security, resiliency, automation, andoperational excellence. **Preferred Qualifications:**• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practicalexperience.• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platformengineering, or infrastructure engineering.