Engineer - Hardware Observability

Target

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Brooklyn Park, MN
Salary
$75,400–$135,700 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
56 days ago
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Below market

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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 92 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $98,000–$176,000 across 67 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineer - Hardware Observability

Engineer - Hardware Observability joins the Infrastructure organization to build, maintain, and improve reliable data pipelines for hardware observability data. The role involves developing and maintaining data schemas, ETL processes, validation checks, and pipeline tooling to collect and transform infrastructure telemetry and metadata. You will partner with SecOps, DevOps, and Observability teams to ensure data is available, trusted, and easy to use. Daily tasks include monitoring data quality, investigating common data issues, performing root cause analysis, and contributing to documentation for data definitions and lineage. Required skills include proficiency in programming languages like Python or Java, knowledge of data modeling, batch and streaming processing, and familiarity with automation tools and network technology fundamentals. You will solve technical problems regarding hardware observability and infrastructure telemetry data.

What does a Engineer earn in Minnesota?

Median $137000 from 37 postings across 5 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build, maintain, and improve reliable data pipelines for hardware observability data.
  • Develop and maintain data schemas, ETL processes, validation checks, and pipeline tooling.
  • Partner with SecOps, DevOps, and Observability teams to ensure data is available and trusted.
  • Monitor data quality and perform root cause analysis when pipelines or data feeds fail.
  • Contribute to documentation for data definitions, lineage, standards, and operational runbooks.
  • Participate in code reviews, testing, deployment, and incident response activities.
  • Develop robust and scalable software components while balancing speed and software quality.

What we're looking for

  • A 4-year degree or equivalent experience is required.
  • At least 1 year of experience in data engineering, observability engineering, infrastructure data, or related technical fields is required.
  • Proficiency in at least one general programming language like Python or Java is required.
  • Proficiency in at least one domain-specific language used for data pipeline development is required.
  • Knowledge of foundational data engineering concepts including schemas, modeling, ETL/ELT patterns, and batch/streaming processing is required.
  • Ability to implement data quality validation checks, monitoring, and reconciliation for observability data pipelines is required.
  • Knowledge of common data formats, metadata, lineage, and schema evolution practices is required.
  • Familiarity with automation tools, network technology fundamentals, and SecOps practices is required.

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