Lead Engineer – Cloud and Compute Platform Teams

About the role

This requisition may encompass multiple openings across both our Cloud & Compute teams.

About you

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation
• Experience leading at least one full-cycle implementation of a product, platform capability, infrastructure service, or major technical initiative from design through production operation
• Deep expertise in designing, building, and operating highly scalable, reliable, secure, and performant distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in multiple programming languages, frameworks, or technology stacks such as Java, Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Kotlin, or similar
• Broad technical experience across one or more cloud-native or platform engineering domains such as Kubernetes, containers, compute, storage, networking, Kafka or streaming platforms, observability, SRE, cloud management, platform AI, APIs, or cloud console development
• Demonstrates ability to define technical strategy, influence architecture, and make sound engineering tradeoffs across performance, availability, scalability, security, maintainability, cost, and developer experience
• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders
• Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

Core responsibilities

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.

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.

Job duties

Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Work arrangements

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs.