Lead Engineer

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 lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a "force multiplier".

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.  

We are looking for a Lead Engineer with strong platform engineering experience in
designing, building, and operating cloud-native applications and microservices on
Kubernetes-based platforms. The ideal candidate will have expertise in modern
application development frameworks, cloud-native technologies, and automation-first engineering 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
distributed systems.
• 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 on
Kubernetes.
• 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.
Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native platform solutions for
hosting applications and services.
• Build, deploy, and manage containerized workloads on Kubernetes platforms.
• Develop APIs and microservices using Java, Kotlin, and/or Go.
• Implement GitOps-based deployment and operational practices.
Troubleshoot and resolve platform and application operational issues.
• Improve application observability, reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Architect infrastructure solutions that enable automation, self-service
provisioning, resiliency, security, compliance, and operational excellence while
delivering an exceptional Guest and Team Member experience.
• Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to
deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality cloud-native solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical
experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platform
engineering, or infrastructure engineering.