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Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
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Listed pay typically runs
$98,000–$176,000
across 67 roles with salary data.
The Sr. 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, and scaling cloud-native infrastructure, reliability practices, and developer-facing capabilities. You will distill abstract architectures into concrete designs, influence fellow engineers on software patterns, and triage operational issues to eliminate repeat occurrences. Key responsibilities include building secure, resilient, and self-service solutions for distributed systems while improving automation and observability. You will utilize programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python, and potentially TypeScript or JavaScript. Technical domains include Kubernetes, containers, compute, storage, networking, messaging, streaming platforms, and cloud management. The work focuses on solving complex platform engineering challenges to ensure high performance, availability, and efficiency across the enterprise.
What does a Engineer earn in Minnesota?
Median $137000 from 37 postings across 5 companies.
Distill abstract architectures into concrete designs and influence the implementation of software engineering patterns.
Develop and program robust, scalable, and secure distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure.
Design and implement self-service solutions for Kubernetes, containers, compute, storage, and messaging platforms.
Triage operational issues and implement solutions to eliminate repeat occurrences.
Build reliable services and improve automation to strengthen observability and production readiness.
Write and organize high-performance code using languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.
Define operational standards and influence data standards, policies, and procedures across the organization.
What we're looking for
4 year degree or equivalent experience.
5+ years of software development experience.
Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.
Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript (preferred).
Experience designing, building, and operating scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems, cloud platforms, infrastructure services, or developer-facing tools.
Hands-on experience in one or more cloud-native or platform engineering domains such as Kubernetes, containers, compute, storage, networking, messaging, or observability.
Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality technical solutions with consideration for performance, availability, latency, scalability, security, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
Ability to clearly communicate Agile concepts to partners within the product team.
Kubernetes
Java
Go
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Kafka
Containers
Distributed Systems
APIs
Observability
Site Reliability Engineering
Version Control
Networking
Storage
Messaging
Cloud-Native Infrastructure