Sr. Engineer – Cloud and Compute Platform Teams

Roundel; Brooklyn Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

401(k)

Employee discount

Paid vacation

Job summary

Roundel in Brooklyn Park, MN is seeking a Senior Engineer for Cloud and Compute Platforms. This role involves designing, automating, and scaling cloud-native infrastructure while collaborating with various teams to deliver high-quality services.

The ideal candidate should have a degree or equivalent experience with 5+ years in software development and a solid grasp of languages like Java and Python. The position supports a hybrid work model, offering flexibility in daily tasks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Go, Python.
• Experience with scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, automate, scale, and evolve cloud-native infrastructure.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and security teams.
• Build reliable services with a focus on performance and availability.

Skills

Java

Go

Python

TypeScript

Kotlin

Education

4 year degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Containers

Observability

Job description

Sr. Engineer – Cloud and Compute Platform TeamsSkip to main content#Sr. Engineer – Cloud and Compute Platform Teams page is loaded## Sr. Engineer – Cloud and Compute Platform TeamsApplylocations: 7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park,MN 55445time type: Full timeposted on: Posted 8 Days Agojob requisition id: R0000442814The pay range is $98,000.00 - $176,000.00Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. 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, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.**Note:** This requisition may encompass *multiple* openings across both our Cloud & Compute teams.**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 **Senior Engineer**, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight in the application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertise in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.**Target’s Cloud & Compute** organization builds and operates the foundational platforms that power the experiences our guests, team members, partners, and engineers rely on every day. We are looking for engineers to help design, automate, scale, and evolve the cloud-native infrastructure, reliability practices, and developer-facing capabilities behind modern retail technology. Depending on the team, you may work across Kubernetes and container platforms, compute and storage, Kafka and data movement, observability, cloud management, site reliability engineering, or the cloud console experiences that make our platforms easier and safer to use.In this role, you will solve complex distributed systems and platform engineering challenges while creating secure, resilient, and self-service solutions that enable teams across Target to move faster with confidence. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and security to build reliable services, improve automation, define operational standards, strengthen observability, support production readiness, and continuously raise the bar for performance, availability, efficiency, and user experience. If you enjoy building platforms that serve many teams, operating systems at scale, learning across technical domains, and turning complex infrastructure into simple, dependable experiences, this is an opportunity to make a broad impact across Target Technology.Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.**About you:*** 4 year degree or equivalent experience* 5+ years of software development experience* Strong proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Java, Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Kotlin, or similar* Experience designing, building, and operating scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems, cloud platforms, infrastructure services, or developer-facing tools* Hands-on experience in one or more cloud-native or platform engineering domains such as Kubernetes, containers, compute, storage, networking, messaging or streaming platforms, observability, SRE, cloud management, platform AI, APIs, or web-based console development* Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality technical solutions with consideration for performance, availability, latency, scalability, security, maintainability, and cost efficiency.* Builds strong commitment within the team to support the appropriate team priorities* Clearly communicates Agile concepts to partners within product team* Demonstrates a solid understanding of the impact of own work on the team and/or guests* Writes and organizes code using multiple computer languages, including distributed programming and understand different frameworks and paradigm* Delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with broad impact (high throughput and low latency)* Influences and applies data standards, policies, and procedures* Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise* Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed educationThis position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.**Benefits Eligibility**Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou\_D**Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)**In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to [e-mail]. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.