Sr Engineer
Target · Posted Nov 5
General merchandise, apparel, grocery, and home goods retail services
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About the role
Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team, supporting the company’s global strategy and operations with more than 4,000 team members. This Senior Engineer role focuses on performance and cost observability across monitoring and platform ecosystems. The engineer will architect self-service observability frameworks, SLO/SLI standards, OpenTelemetry-based telemetry, and FinOps cost visibility while mentoring engineers and collaborating with Finance and infrastructure teams.
What you will do
- Architect and Lead : Design, maintain, and optimize opinionated, self-service developer paths and observability frameworks that ensure reliability, resilience, and cost-effectiveness at scale, eliminating manual toil and one-off team integrations.
- Drive Reliability Standards: Lead the definition, implementation, and automated enforcement of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs), providing product teams with self-service frameworks to manage their own error budgets, fostering a culture of measurable reliability.
- Manage Complex Telemetry: Drive the strategy for high-cardinality data management and distributed tracing using standards like OpenTelemetry, guiding product teams toward self-sufficiency in debugging and performance tuning without unchecked cost sprawl.
- Optimize Financial Efficiency: Implement and refine critical performance and FinOps observability metrics (E.g., Cost per deployed service, utilization rates) to enable product teams to autonomously manage their cloud footprint.
- Collaborate Strategically: Work closely with Finance, Infrastructure, and Engineering Leadership to gather requirements, clarify efficiency objectives, and build transparent showback models of engineering costs to the business.
- Mentor and Empower: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers, helping them master performance optimization, FinOps observability practices, and effective monitoring strategies.
- Scale for the Future: Collaborate with Principal and Distinguished Engineers to design scalable observability architectures that align with the long-term business growth and infrastructure sustainability.
- Resolve and Innovate: Analyze complex performance bottlenecks and cost inefficiencies, propose innovative solutions, and take ownership of their resolution in production environments.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 4+ years of professional software development and systems engineering experience, with a heavy emphasis on Observability, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or FinOps.
- Expertise in one or more programming languages such as Golang, Java, Python, or C++.
- Deep technical knowledge of modern observability frameworks, specifically OpenTelemetry, and proven experience managing high-cardinality telemetry data.
- Demonstrated experience in defining, measuring, and operationalizing SLOs and SLIs within large-scale microservices or distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of performance and FinOps observability practices, with the ability to measure infrastructure efficiency and implement engineering cost showback models.
- Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to identify the root causes of complex performance issues or cloud cost anomalies and develop effective, automated solutions.
- Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical teams and align engineering efforts with Finance and business stakeholders.
- Proven track record of building opinionated developer tools, self-service frameworks, or platform abstractions that serve entire engineering organizations rather than handling one-off ticket requests.
- Proficiency in languages like Golang or Python to build automated platform tooling, SDK wrappers, and infrastructure abstractions.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure) and modern software architectures such as microservices
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, automation tools, and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience working on large-scale software systems or projects in a team environment
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Target
Target Corporation operates an extensive chain of general merchandise and discount retail department stores across the United States. The company provides a broad assortment of owned and national brand products, including apparel, electronics, beauty items, groceries, and home goods. Through its physical stores and digital platforms, Target focuses on delivering style, design, and value to help consumers discover the joy of everyday life.
- Industry
- Retail
- Company size
- 415000+ employees
- Founded
- 1902
- Location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Chair of the Board
Jim Lee
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Prat Vemana
Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Product Officer
Mark Weinstein
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Guest Experience Officer
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