Sr Engineer

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 Open Telemetry, guiding product teams toward self-sufficiency in debugging and performance tuning without unchecked cost sprawl. Optimize Financial Efficiency: Implement and refine critical performance and Fin Ops 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, Fin Ops 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 Fin Ops. Expertise in one or more programming languages such as Golang, Java, Python, or C++. Deep technical knowledge of modern observability frameworks, specifically Open Telemetry, 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 Fin Ops 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 Dev Ops practices, automation tools, and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) Experience working on large-scale software systems or projects in a team environment Know More About Us here: Life at Target- https://india.target.com/ Benefits- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits Culture- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/belonging Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop. We'll contact you if you're selected for next steps. In the meantime, follow us at A Bullseye View for the latest news. Our Benefits We care about and invest in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.