Lead Engineer - Reliability Engineering & Enablement

About the role

The pay range is $132,000.00 - $238,000.00. Pay is based on several factors including labor markets, education, work experience, and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target offers comprehensive health benefits and programs, including medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and more, to support your well-being. Other benefits include 401(k), employee discounts, short-term and long-term disability, paid sick leave, national holidays, and vacation.

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Define and evolve architecture across systems and products, ensuring alignment with business goals and long-term platform strategy.
• Lead design decisions for platform modernization, enterprise data capabilities, integrations, and reliability initiatives.
• Create technical roadmaps, ADRs, and modernization strategies that improve scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and guide adoption of automation, AI-assisted engineering, and agentic capabilities where appropriate.

Platform Modernization & Reliability

• Drive improvements in reliability, observability, resiliency, security, and system performance across critical platforms.
• Reduce technical debt and platform coupling through modernization, service extraction, and event-driven architecture patterns.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns and operational standards that improve consistency and delivery velocity.

Engineering Excellence & Influence

• Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and raise technical standards across teams.
• Act as a force multiplier by enabling engineers and teams to solve complex problems independently.
• Partner across engineering, architecture, data, and product organizations to align technical direction and drive execution.
• Influence technical decisions, manage technical risk, and communicate strategy to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

About You

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation.
• Strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target’s technology capabilities, and key competitors’ products and differentiating features.
• Broad and deep expertise in multiple computer languages and frameworks (e.g., open source).
• Designs, develops, and approves end-to-end functionality of a product line, platform, or infrastructure.
• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders.
• Expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health.
• Understands and develops solutions to foster data lifecycle management.
• Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise.
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education.
• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems.

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

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.

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