Description:
About Us:

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company, and one of America's leading retailers.

Target as a tech company? Absolutely. We are the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Target's passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. We anchor every aspect of being America's most loved retailer with cutting-edge technology, and the smartest engineers in retail technology! Developer Experience (DevEx) at Target is a group of engineering teams who work to improve the reliability of Target's tech footprint. To do that, they combine software and systems engineering to build products and platforms that manage notifications, incidents, change, data connections and insights, chaos engineering, and eventing.

As an Engineer in DevEx, you are someone who has demonstrated experience building and operating highly scalable platforms and fault-tolerant systems across a range of technologies. You are interested in all the things that contribute to operational excellence in a highly complex distributed environment. You care about the data that describes the systems that are deployed, changed, and served out of our own data centers and into the cloud.

Job Summary:

As a member of the DevEx team, you will contribute to technical architecture, product prioritization, scalable automation, capacity planning, adoption of supporting technologies, and all other aspects of building world-class privately hosted and cloud-based services. You will work closely with software engineering teams using our products and services and focus on driving adoption, understanding user's needs, and translating those back into our design.

DevEx Engineers are systems and software engineers whose focus is to help Target increase reliability through business insights. We make the operation of software easy, improving resiliency by designing Chaos Engineering, connecting data to answer questions, own the alerting and notifications platform and working on the change and incident platform for Target's e-commerce/Retail and Enterprise platforms. DevEx's team goal is to drive understanding of operational excellence for engineering teams and to be able to provide insights into change and incidents for the business.

This role will support our Linked Intelligence System (LIS). LIS catalogs all of the relationships among Target's digital assets (hardware and software) and the people who work on them. LIS, as an aggregator, provides a single place for people to query about Target's current hardware and software inventory and their interactions while still allowing teams to own and manage their own inventory systems (distributed inventorying).

What You Will Be Doing

• Be a member of a software development engineering team focused on building and supporting key internal systems
• As full stack engineer you will be working on all aspects of the software development lifecycle from design to implementation to support.
• Work across teams to deliver new and innovative solutions to large scale technical problems.
• You will engage with local and global teams participating in
• You will actively use agile methodologies with teams to manage work-in-progress and prioritize projects.

Technologies You Will Be Using

• Languages: Kotlin, Groovy, Python
• Runtimes/Frameworks: React, Kubernetes, Spring Boot
• Distributed Streaming Platform: Kafka, logstash
• Data Stores: Elastic Search, Graph Database (Neo4j)
• Metrics Visualization: Grafana
• Operating Systems: Mac, Windows, CentOS, Alpine Linux
• CI/CD Tools: Gradle, Docker, Vela, Spinnaker, TAP
• Other: Git, Artifactory

We understand that according to industry research, oftentimes underrepresented minorities will not apply for jobs unless they feel they can meet all the requirements on the job description. We believe that people can grow, and we value inclusive and diverse teams. Regardless of your demographic, we would like to hear from you if you find this job a stretch or an exact match for your current skill set.

This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid work arrangement means the team members core role will be a blend of virtual and onsite at a Target location. 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 their primary HQ work location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. The salary range is :$64,600.00 USD - $116,300.00 USD. Pay is based on several factors which may include, but are not limited to education, work experience, certifications, labor markets, etc. In addition to your salary, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

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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