This role pays less than
96%
of similar roles. Most pay
$145,000–$233,687
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$106k
versus about
$189k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Target
Target Corporation is a large-format general merchandise and grocery retailer offering a wide assortment of everyday essentials, apparel, home goods, and electronics through stores and online. Industry: General Merchandise Retail
Target currently has
58 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$98,000–$176,000
across 58 roles with salary data.
Engineer – Cloud and Compute Platform Teams joins the Cloud & Compute organization to build and operate foundational platforms powering retail technology. This role involves designing, automating, scaling, and evolving cloud-native infrastructure, reliability practices, and developer-facing capabilities. You will solve complex distributed systems and platform engineering challenges while creating secure, resilient, and self-service solutions for internal teams. Day-to-day responsibilities include developing robust software components, performing code reviews, and collaborating with product, engineering, and security teams to improve automation and observability. Required skills include proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, Go, Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript. You must possess a foundational understanding of data structures, debugging, testing, version control, and distributed systems concepts including APIs, containers, Kubernetes, networking, storage, messaging/streaming, and site reliability engineering to ensure high performance and availability across the platform.
What does a Engineer earn?
Median $185000 from 249 postings across 48 companies.
Develop robust and scalable software components for the company's cloud-native infrastructure.
Solve complex distributed systems and platform engineering challenges to create secure, resilient solutions.
Automate, scale, and evolve cloud infrastructure and developer-facing capabilities.
Perform code reviews to ensure software quality and functional accuracy across the team.
Manage operational issues with little or no oversight to maintain system reliability.
Build reliable services while improving automation and defining operational standards.
Strengthen observability and support production readiness for internal platforms.
Implement features that improve performance, availability, efficiency, and user experience.
What we're looking for
A 4-year degree or equivalent experience is required.
At least 1 year of software development experience is required.
Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, Go, Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript is required.
Foundational understanding of data structures, debugging, testing, version control, code reviews, and writing maintainable code is required.
Familiarity with cloud, platform, or distributed systems concepts like APIs, containers, Kubernetes, networking, storage, messaging, observability, or service reliability is required.
Ability to learn new technologies, tools, and domains quickly to solve engineering problems is required.
Kubernetes
Java
Kotlin
Go
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Kafka
SRE
Distributed Systems
cloud-native
Containers
Observability
APIs
Agile
Site Reliability Engineering
Data Movement
Platform Engineering
Software Engineering
System Design
Algorithms
Data Structures
Concurrency
CICD
Agile
Scrum
Jira
SDK Development
Backend Services
Data Platforms
Analytics