Lead Engineer, Target.com Web Enablement

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Brooklyn Park, MN
Salary
$132,000–$238,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
3 days ago
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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 77 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $98,000–$176,000 across 59 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Lead Engineer, Target.com Web Enablement

As a Lead Engineer within the Digital Enablement team, you will serve as a technical anchor for building and supporting foundational platforms, tools, and reliability frameworks. You will own application architecture, drive architectural changes to improve operational efficiency, and establish reusable engineering patterns for scalable digital experiences. Your daily work involves leading technical design, managing service lifecycles, and conducting research for new technologies. You will utilize Go, TypeScript/Node.js, and cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, while managing containerized applications on Kubernetes. Key responsibilities include authoring GitHub Actions workflows, managing CDN configurations like Fastly, and implementing observability practices including logs and distributed tracing. You will solve complex distributed-systems challenges to ensure high-performance, secure, and stable production environments for high-traffic web systems.

What you'll do

  • Own the application architecture to ensure it meets functional, non-functional, and reliability requirements.
  • Set technical direction and establish reusable engineering patterns for distributed systems.
  • Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership for platform services.
  • Execute research and proof-of-concept activities for emerging technologies and infrastructure.
  • Develop plans, schedules, and milestones while mitigating risks and removing project obstacles.
  • Establish standards for monitoring, testing, and automating IT components and systems.
  • Build and maintain production-grade APIs, backend services, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Serve as an expert resource for disaster recovery planning and high-performance system deliverables.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience delivering and supporting production systems through a full development lifecycle.
  • Experience leading technical design and architecture for scalable, reliable services, APIs, or developer platforms.
  • Strong programming experience in Go, TypeScript/Node.js, or comparable languages and frameworks.
  • Experience building and operating production-grade APIs, backend services, developer tooling, or platform capabilities for digital web systems.
  • 2+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices, including authoring and maintaining GitHub Actions workflows.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and containerized applications on platforms such as Kubernetes.
  • Understanding of web delivery and CDN concepts, including caching, traffic routing, and edge configuration.
  • Experience with observability practices, including logs, metrics, and distributed tracing, to improve system reliability and performance.
  • Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, influence engineering decisions, and mentor engineers across teams.
  • Strong communication, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
  • Deep experience building and operating production services or developer tooling in Go and TypeScript/Node.js (preferred).
  • Experience building reusable GitHub Actions, custom actions, or large-scale CI/CD pipelines (preferred).
  • Experience with CDN platforms such as Fastly, including VCL or edge logic configuration (preferred).
  • Experience designing APIs, SDKs, or platform capabilities consumed by multiple engineering teams (preferred).
  • Experience with progressive deployment strategies such as canary, blue/green, or red/black deployments (preferred).
  • Experience with secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, or software supply chain security (preferred).
  • Experience with high-traffic web systems or e-commerce platform architecture (preferred).
  • Experience establishing engineering standards and practices for reliability, operational readiness, and disaster recovery (preferred).
  • Interest in or experience with developer experience tooling, AI-assisted development workflows, or internal platform engineering (preferred).

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