About this Sr Engineer role at Target
About Us
As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here, we believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.
Overview about TII
At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from different backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.
Position Overview
As a Senior Engineer focused on Performance and Cost Observability, you will take a autonomous lead role in architecting, migrating, and optimizing our end-to-end monitoring and platform ecosystems. With your deep technical expertise, you will guide teams in delivering reliable, resilient, and cost-effective distributed systems that directly support our mission to spark connections and serve our communities. You will be responsible for driving critical technical discussions around system health and financial efficiency, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure our infrastructure scales sustainably. In this role, you will build scaled, self-service observability capabilities—establishing opinionated paths, standardized frameworks, and automated guardrails that empower application teams to independently monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their services. You are focused on systemic, enterprise-wide solutions rather than one-off operational tasks, building platform leverage that scales across all engineering teams.
How you can make an impact
Architect and Lead: Design, maintain, and optimize opinionated, self-service developer paths and observability frameworks that ensure reliability, resilience, and cost-effectiveness at scale, eliminating manual toil and one-off team integrations.
Drive Reliability Standards: Lead the definition, implementation, and automated enforcement of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs), providing product teams with self-service frameworks to manage their own error budgets, fostering a culture of measurable reliability.
Manage Complex Telemetry: Drive the strategy for high-cardinality data management and distributed tracing using standards like OpenTelemetry, guiding product teams toward self-sufficiency in debugging and performance tuning without unchecked cost sprawl.
Optimize Financial Efficiency: Implement and refine critical performance and FinOps observability metrics (E.g., Cost per deployed service, utilization rates) to enable product teams to autonomously manage their cloud footprint.
Collaborate Strategically: Work closely with Finance, Infrastructure, and Engineering Leadership to gather requirements, clarify efficiency objectives, and build transparent showback models of engineering costs to the business.
Mentor and Empower: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers, helping them master performance optimization, FinOps observability practices, and effective monitoring strategies.
Scale for the Future: Collaborate with Principal and Distinguished Engineers to design scalable observability architectures that align with the long-term business growth and infrastructure sustainability.
Resolve and Innovate: Analyze complex performance bottlenecks and cost inefficiencies, propose innovative solutions, and take ownership of their resolution in production environments.
About you
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
4+ years of professional software development and systems engineering experience, with a heavy emphasis on Observability, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or FinOps.
Expertise in one or more programming languages such as Golang, Java, Python, or C++.
Deep technical knowledge of modern observability frameworks, specifically OpenTelemetry, and proven experience managing high-cardinality telemetry data.
Demonstrated experience in defining, measuring, and operationalizing SLOs and SLIs within large-scale microservices or distributed systems.
Strong understanding of performance and FinOps observability practices, with the ability to measure infrastructure efficiency and implement engineering cost showback models.
Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to identify the root causes of complex performance issues or cloud cost anomalies and develop effective, automated solutions.
Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical teams and align engineering efforts with Finance and business stakeholders.
Proven track record of building opinionated developer tools, self-service frameworks, or platform abstractions that serve entire engineering organizations rather than handling one-off ticket requests.
Proficiency in languages like Golang or Python to build automated platform tooling, SDK wrappers, and infrastructure abstractions.
Nice to Have
Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure) and modern software architectures such as microservices
Familiarity with DevOps practices, automation tools, and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience working on large-scale software systems or projects in a team environment
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Life at Target- https://india.target.com/
