The pay range is $128,000.00 - $231,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits .

About us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 350,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.

Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play. We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It’s how we care, grow, and win together.

The Target Data Platform team creates the platforms and tools to enable our business partners to use data to drive our business forward. This team helps to manage hardware and software for large scale distributed computing, frequently angling towards data analytics and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning type applications. We help develop the technology that personalizes the guest experience, from product recommendations to relevant ad content. We’re also the source of the data and analytics behind Target's Supply Chain optimization, fraud detection, demand forecasting and metrics to support our stores. We play a key role in identifying the test-and-measure or A/B test opportunities that continuously help Target improve the guest experience, whether they love to shop in stores or online.

As a lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own and are responsible for the application and platform architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You'll bring innovative ideas and help set the strategy for the future of our platform. You love keeping abreast of the latest industry trends and use them to help you innovate. You have leadership qualities, good judgment, and clear communication skills. If you’re excited to work on a fast-moving, tightly knit team and build solutions to unsolved problems, we want to meet you.

Use your skills, experience, and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals.

As a Lead Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…

• Understand Target's business and technical environments and assist teams in resolving complex business challenges via current technical solutions by assessing viability/applicability/cost implication through POCs and prototypes.
• Collaborate with technical staff and Enterprise Architecture teams in setting technical direction across platform and drive technology lifecycle management and communication of standards/decisions to the engineering team.
• Participate in procurement specifications, installation, and maintenance of Target systems.
• Lead designing and building the Target platform API with deep focus on non-functional requirement including scalability, availability, performance, etc. while being a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices across engineers.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About You:

• BA/BS or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of relevant experience
• Strong proficiency in Java/Go or similar language
• Have a deep understanding of some of the following concepts:
  • Operating System Architecture, memory management, process scheduling, I/O scheduling
  • Networking, technologies, latency, bandwidth
  • Benchmarking, Performance Debugging, Performance monitoring
• Have familiarity and experience with some of the following technologies:
  • Object Storage tech (MinIO, Ceph, etc)
  • Spark
  • Apache Hadoop ecosystem or Kubernetes
  • Databases - NoSQL and RDBMS
  • Trino/PrestoSQL
  • ZooKeeper
• Possess a strong understanding of high-performance, large-scale system architecture design and implementation
• Experience with distributed and parallel processing, computer architecture, operating systems, synchronization, communication
• Experience with modern CI/CD technologies such as Git, Drone, Docker, Artifactory
• Experience with open source software projects, researching features, applying patches, contributing fixes
• Understand business fundamentals and how technologies can support business goals along with how to translate business vision into a technical strategy while understanding the financial implications
• Have proven leadership capabilities, the ability to influence others, interpersonal skills, and problem-solving skills
• Strong team player who understands concepts of teamwork and team effectiveness.
• Have excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills to convey complex technical solutions clearly to an organization
• Have excellent planning and organizational skills­­­
• Proven track record in writing code that is correct, maintainable, testable, expressive, easy to change, efficient & fault-tolerant
• Extensive understanding of software development and design

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as "Flex for Your Day") work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Benefits Eligibility

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com.

Application deadline is : 04/04/2025