Skip to content
Updated How AI-exposed are the skills employers are hiring for? See the data →

From the employer's careers site First seen 6 Nov 2026

Senior Engineer

Target Brooklyn Park, MN Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$98,000 - $176,000 per year

Apply on Target

Description

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to join our Digital Enablement team at Target. As a Senior Engineer, you will specialize in building and supporting the platforms and tools that enable teams to deliver reliable, scalable digital experiences. You will translate architectural concepts into practical, resilient solutions and apply strong engineering patterns to improve system reliability and operational efficiency.

The Digital Enablement team builds and supports the foundational platforms, tools, and reliability frameworks that empower Target's digital product teams to deliver high-quality guest experiences at scale. We focus on improving engineering efficiency, operational excellence, and system reliability across the digital ecosystem.

Key responsibilities:

  • Apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized areas of the technology domain
  • Evaluate new technologies and participate in decision-making
  • Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies
  • Manage total product, financials, and forecasting
  • Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services
  • Lead and conduct code review, design review, testing, and debugging activities at the application level
  • Provide technical oversight and coach others to resolve complex and severe technical issues

Requirements:

  • BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 4+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on building and maintaining production-grade APIs and developer tooling
  • 2+ years of experience designing and building RESTful or gRPC APIs, preferably in Go and/or TypeScript
  • 2+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices, including authoring GitHub Actions workflows
  • Hands-on experience building backend services, CLIs, or platform tooling that improve developer productivity or support large-scale web deployments
  • Experience working with major cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Experience containerizing applications and deploying them on orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and Docker

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive health benefits and programs
  • 401(k)
  • Employee discount
  • Short-term disability
  • Long-term disability
  • Paid sick leave
  • Paid national holidays
  • Paid vacation

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • production services
  • tooling in Go
  • TypeScript/Node.js
  • Fastly
  • CDN platforms
  • progressive deployment strategies
  • secrets management
  • certificate lifecycle
  • supply chain security practices
  • e-commerce platform architecture
  • high-traffic web systems
  • emerging developer experience tooling
  • AI-assisted development workflows
  • internal platform engineering
Apply on Target