# Lead Engineer

**Company**: Target
**Location**: Brooklyn Park, MN
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $132,000.00 - $238,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Engineer to serve as the technical anchor for our engineering team. You will create, own, and be responsible for the application architecture that best serves our product in its functional and non-functional needs. You will identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service.

Target's Cloud & Compute organisation builds and operates the foundational platforms that power the experiences our guests, team members, partners, and engineers rely on every day. You will solve complex distributed systems and platform engineering challenges while creating secure, resilient, and self-service solutions that enable teams across Target to move faster with confidence.

Key responsibilities:

- Create and own application architecture

- Identify and drive architectural changes

- Collaborate with product, engineering, and security to build reliable services

- Improve automation, define operational standards, and strengthen observability

- Support production readiness and continuously raise the bar for performance, availability, efficiency, and user experience

Requirements:

- 4-year degree or equivalent experience

- 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation

- Experience leading at least one full-cycle implementation of a product, platform capability, infrastructure service, or major technical initiative

- Deep expertise in designing, building, and operating highly scalable, reliable, secure, and performant distributed systems

- Strong proficiency in multiple programming languages, frameworks, or technology stacks

- Broad technical experience across one or more cloud-native or platform engineering domains

Benefits:

- Comprehensive health benefits and programs

- 401(k)

- Employee discount

- Short-term disability

- Long-term disability

- Paid sick leave

- Paid national holidays

- Paid vacation

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## Skills

### Required
- Cloud-native infrastructure
- Platform engineering
- Distributed systems
- Kubernetes
- Containers
- Compute
- Storage
- Kafka
- Observability
- Site reliability engineering
- Cloud management
- Java
- Go
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Kotlin

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