Lead Engineer - Managed Container

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Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.

As a lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own andare responsible forthe application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. Youidentifyand drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills andare capable of standingup an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a "force multiplier". Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. 

Lead Engineer – Managed Containers

We are looking for aLead Engineerwith strong platform engineering experience in designing, building, and operating cloud-native applications and microservices on Kubernetes-based platforms. The ideal candidate will haveexpertisein modern application development frameworks, cloud-native technologies, and automation-first engineering practices.

Required Skills

• Strong software development experience withJava/Kotlinand frameworks such asMicronautorSpring Boot.

  
  

• Experience withGo (Golang)and/orGroovy/Ratpackis a plus.

  
  

• Strong understanding ofmicroservicesarchitecture, API design, and distributed systems.

  
  

• Experience implementingGitOpspractices using tools such asArgo CDorFlux.

  
  

• Experience building andmaintainingCI/CD pipelinesand modern software delivery practices.

  
  

• Hands-on experience developing, deploying, andoperatingapplications onKubernetes.

  
  

• Experience withcaching technologiesandSQL databases.

  
  

• Experience with public cloud platforms, preferablyGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP); experience with AWS or Azure is also valued.

  
  

• Experience withInfrastructure as Code (IaC)and Kubernetes deployment tools, includingTerraform,Helm, and/orKustomize.

  
  

• Experience with observability solutions, includingmetrics, logging, monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing.

  
  

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, andmaintainscalable cloud-native platform solutions for hosting applications and services.

  
  

• Build, deploy, and manage containerized workloads on Kubernetes platforms.

  
  

• Develop APIs and microservices usingJava,Kotlin, and/orGo.

  
  

• ImplementGitOps-based deployment and operational practices.

  
  

• Troubleshoot and resolve platform and application operational issues.

  
  

• Improve application observability, reliability, performance, and scalability.

  
  

• Architect infrastructure solutions that enable automation, self-service provisioning, resiliency, security, compliance, and operational excellence while delivering an exceptional Guest and Team Member experience.

  
  

• Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality cloud-native solutions.

  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

  
  

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering.