The pay range is $128,000.00 - $231,000.00

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About us:

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As a lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports Cloud Storage. You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up 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.

The Cloud Storage team builds and operates the backbone that keeps data secure, accessible, and resilient at scale. We’re passionate about solving complex distributed systems challenges, from optimizing performance and reliability to designing innovative storage solutions that empower the business as well as developers. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and collaborate with a group of engineers who value curiosity, collaboration, and impact. We take pride in a culture where ideas are shared openly, mentorship is part of our DNA, and every engineer has a voice in shaping the future of our platform.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Drive architecture and design decisions for distributed storage systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Team Mentorship: Guide, coach, and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Hands-On Development: Contribute to codebases, reviews, and system improvements, setting high standards for quality and performance.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product management, infrastructure, and security teams to define requirements and deliver innovative storage solutions.
• Operational Excellence: Champion automation, observability, and incident response best practices to ensure high availability of storage services.
• Innovation: Stay current with industry trends in cloud infrastructure, storage technologies, and distributed systems, bringing new ideas to the team.

Core Technologies: Ceph, MinIO, Ansible (IaC), Kotlin, Golang, Python, Postgres, Linux Ubuntu

About you:
• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation
• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target’s technology capabilities, and key competitors’ products and differentiating features
• Demonstrates broad and deep expertise in multiple computer languages and frameworks (e.g., open source).

• Designs, develops, and approves end-to-end functionality of a product line, platform, or infrastructure
• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders
• Demonstrates expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health
• Understands and develops solutions to foster data lifecycle management
• Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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