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Lead Engineer, External Cloud Platform

Employer
Target
Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Start date
Jul 9, 2019
Closing date
Sep 8, 2019

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Category
Retail / Wholesale
Employment Status
Full Time
Description:
About us:
Target is one of the world's most recognized brands and one of America's leading retailers. Our guests love our commitment to continual innovation and right now, we are up to big things. Our goal is to deliver Target's unique brand promise to guests wherever and whenever they shop, today and tomorrow: in-store, online, on tablets and mobile phones, and in the retail channels of the future.

This position is for the External Cloud team within Target's Platform Services division. The Platform Services teams create, deploy, and manage enterprise platform solutions used by thousands of Target's engineers. The External Cloud team is responsible for providing a consistent infrastructure experience across multiple cloud providers. Strong infrastructure patterns architected to provide flexibility for specialized implementations give freedom to the software engineers using our platforms to remain focused on their business problems. Our users include target.com, mobile, enterprise data services, and business intelligence software engineers, in addition to all of the teams that provide enterprise solutions to that same customer base such as measurement, logging, data movement, and more.

The team creates an engineer-centric culture through team members selecting their own work, autonomy in implementation decisions, and debating ideas solely on merit. We work primarily in pairs or groups not only to share knowledge but to include a diversity of thought in all of our decisions. We encourage personal growth through variety of work, prioritizing career path discussions, and a commitment to continuous learning. The team enables smart risk and innovative experimentation by practicing blameless retrospectives, approaching every decision as an experiment, and focusing on learning through doing. We are an agile team that practices a blend of Scrum and Kanban, with a stress on independent, autonomous decisions of the team. We also have a flexible work environment as appropriate to the needs of the individual and team.

As a Lead Engineer, you serve as a cross-functional expert on the team. You help to identify what needs to be done in order to achieve Target's broader strategies, and you drive how those things get done. You have strong opinions on the design and implementation of cloud platform architectures. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and drive and execute the implementation. You are an expert in applying the appropriate engineering patterns to build robust, scalable, and secure systems. You have some experience in programming and apply those skills in supporting the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own and can influence and mentor your fellow engineers by proposing alternative infrastructure designs, providing feedback on others' designs and/or implementation. You demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills and can lead the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise to drive the elimination of repeat occurrences.

Preferred Experience:
  • Programming language/s: Java, sql, no-sql, Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, and more
  • Infrastructure as Code: Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Packer
  • Cloud Experience: Kubernetes, OpenStack, Google Cloud
  • CI/CD: GitHub, Drone, Jenkins
  • Testing: Gatling, Selenium, K6, unit testing, functional testing, integration testing
  • Linux administration: command line, network, security
  • Open/Inner Source: Working with existing community projects, starting new efforts


About you:
  • 4 year degree or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of experience with virtual infrastructure and the tools that manage it
  • Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target's technology capabilities, and key competitors' products and differentiating features
  • Working knowledge on package-specific configuration and deployment along with ability to build custom solutions
  • Designs new testing methods and resolves routine and non-routine technical issues with minimal assistance
  • Builds strong commitment within the team to support the appropriate team priorities
  • Clearly communicates Agile concepts to partners within product team
  • Demonstrates a solid understanding of the impact of own work on the team and/or guests
  • Writes and organizes code using multiple computer languages, including distributed programming and understand different frameworks and paradigm
  • Delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with broad impact (high throughput and low latency)
  • Influences and applies data standards, policies, and procedures
  • Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
  • Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education


Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Target will provide reasonable accommodations (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Distribution Center or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.

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